Michael Barnes
This book is over a massive timescale but incredible small and personal focus about the quiet end of the world. Its the postapocalyptic setting, but gentle. The author’s experience in biology shines through her writing as she imagines the diverse forms that humans and their societies might take in the far distant future.
Under the Eye of the Big Bird is a collection of fourteen stand-alone stories with recurring 'characters/features that gradually form a larger narrative, and the reader is encouraged to put together a history from bits and pieces of individual lives. We never see the full picture, however, and I imagine that assembling a concrete timeline would take careful detective work.
Some of the stories bring a touch of touch of existential dread as in any encounter with real difference, this initial sense of discomfort is important. The gentle strangeness of Under the Eye of the Big Bird encourages the reader to confront their biases, and it also lends weight to the narrative theme of human extinction
This book is over a massive timescale but incredible small and personal focus about the quiet end of the world. Its the postapocalyptic setting, but gentle. The author’s experience in biology shines through her writing as she imagines the diverse forms that humans and their societies might take in the far distant future.
Under the Eye of the Big Bird is a collection of fourteen stand-alone stories with recurring 'characters/features that gradually form a larger narrative, and the reader is encouraged to put together a history from bits and pieces of individual lives. We never see the full picture, however, and I imagine that assembling a concrete timeline would take careful detective work.
Some of the stories bring a touch of touch of existential dread as in any encounter with real difference, this initial sense of discomfort is important. The gentle strangeness of Under the Eye of the Big Bird encourages the reader to confront their biases, and it also lends weight to the narrative theme of human extinction