and I found myself missing the subtle glow of gas lamps. The twenty-first century was so gauche. Sometimes I marvelled at how far forward the world had moved—the beauty of modern medicine, and how it gave my sister a fighting chance—but other times I thought of smartphones and steel buildings and plastic-filled oceans and longed for a time long gone.
pls author dont try to do too much with this book
im sure you care lots abt issues but we've already brought up surface level colonization and climate change analyses. newer authors often have this issue where they try to tackle too many things in one book
