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This was beautiful and hypnotic and a fitting read for me to end the year 2014 on.
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This is not quite SF. It's definitely an SF concept, and in fact can comfortably take its place among other post-apocalyptic stories. But its interest lies elsewhere. In fact, it reads more like a book in which magic has died -- the characters don't seem aware that technology was created by people and that they can work to make simpler versions of this. Like, the power grid is down but no one attempts windmills or water power or steam. They wonder whether to teach their ...more
This is not quite SF. It's definitely an SF concept, and in fact can comfortably take its place among other post-apocalyptic stories. But its interest lies elsewhere. In fact, it reads more like a book in which magic has died -- the characters don't seem aware that technology was created by people and that they can work to make simpler versions of this. Like, the power grid is down but no one attempts windmills or water power or steam. They wonder whether to teach their ...more
This is a story from multiple perspectives that jumps back and forth through time, before and after a flu has killed 99% of humanity. It should be very dark, it should like The Road and I should feel gutted because it's so lonely and horrifying. Sometimes it is all of those things but mostly it's not. The writing is so lovely and at times it reminds me of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake but with a less depressing view of humanity -- this is elegant and hopeful. I didn't love the ending, it felt
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Interesting for a post-apocalyptic novel in that it focuses on the interrelationships of the characters before and after the "end of the world" instead of the survival porn that permeates the genre.
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