Category:
Dystopian & Apocalyptic
Regular value:
$2.99
Deal value:
Free
Deal begins:
February 10, 2023
Deal ends:
February 22, 2023
The prequel novella, Two of All People, and the surprising new climate-fiction novel it introduces, The Dying Party, each ask: What occurs once they inform us it is too late to cease local weather change and we’re compelled to face a close to future that will likely be more and more hellish, and an finish that can come inside our lifetimes? The novel solutions with two parallel story traces. On the one hand, we’ve six survivors in 2049, in a residential complicated constructed into the aspect of Gros Morne. They are the final six folks alive on the one piece of liveable land nonetheless above water in all of what was as soon as jap Canada. The prequel kicks off this story line. On the opposite hand, we’ve a gaggle of humanity’s richest and strongest, the super-elite, making an attempt to ascertain an off-Earth colony for themselves.
The prequel and the novel present in fascinating element the complicated brutality of what having to just accept such a destiny would imply for human civilization; what it could seem like on a worldwide scale, in a neighborhood context, and from a spread of private views. The thrust of the novel, nonetheless, is for instance the under-appreciated impression that passing the local weather change tipping level could have on the human psyche. This shouldn’t be fanciful hypothesis in regards to the close to and distant future, however the logical extension of the present course of humanity based mostly on intensive analysis. The novel has the braveness to depict the worst-case state of affairs unflinchingly; it’s, subsequently, the cautionary story to finish all cautionary tales.
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