Written in 1993 yet set in 2025, this novel is a post-apocalyptic science fiction story set in a near-future America ravaged by climate change, economic collapse, and social unrest. There's a lot going on.
The main character is Lauren Olamina, a 15-year-old girl with the ability to feel others' pain, who must navigate a dangerous world and develop her own religion, Earthseed, as she seeks to survive and find meaning in the face of societal breakdown.
From the publisher:
When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day.
Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' pain.
Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith...and a startling vision of human destiny.
No comments:
Post a Comment