KeyaI’m 100 pages into #thedeluge by which I picked up from Solid State Books after reading the #WaPo review and seeing @drvolts endorsement. I just got to the near future- 2025. Started v strong for me w/ a relatable climate scientist. Second chapter was so boring (post modern text boxes about characters I didn’t need that much on), I struggled. Now I’m drawn in! He brought in a feisty activist character I like so far :) 800 pages to go. #bookstodon #clifi #speculativefiction
@drvolts mild spoiler alert: 200 pages in, in 2028 and it’s good, though not the future I predict. The faux op-Ed from @billmckibben on fee and dividend and the reference to the Skocpol report were amusing. Reads like the IRA passed after this was written, which I assume was the case.
@drvolts @billmckibben I finished #TheDeluge and it was AMAZING. I had my little nit picks (handcuffs in a lock box?so much food inflation but the price of carbon is only $100/ton in 2040?), but the depth of the world building, plot, and characters is stunning, not to mention the scope of covering from 2013 to 2040 with such realism. It's truly epic. Every time I close the book, I thought, 'get out of my head' to the author (I was too engrossed while reading to think that) #SpeculativeFiction
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