Rhiannon
🌎☀️
Swoon.
I absolutely loved this magnificent, gorgeous ode – to humanity’s hubris, the natural world and the seemingly unavoidable, calamitous journey we’re on – that turns the idea of a future dystopia on its head.
Not exactly a novel, but a series of loosely connected, light scifi-ish stories spanning our very near future to several millennia away. This book runs the gamut of emotions when faced with the climate ravages overtaking us: terror (fire, flood, drought), guilt (we did this!), resistance (to change, to tech, AI!!), surrender, inspiration and creativity, and sheer joy and wonder at what can be accomplished.
I, like many, am nervous 🤨 about the future role of intelligent tech, machines, AI, etc., and it’s impact on our future. And I was honestly a little concerned how I would relate overall to the book (I was expecting a great deal of negativity to the idea of the drones), but I found Rex’s writing to be moving and poetic while still briskly moving through a vast timeline where the wildcraft drones became something I was rooting for. Each story is individual and has its own merits, but taken as a whole, it’s an inspiring path forward.
Made me laugh, cry, reflect and thrill to the possibilities of this future!
My thanks to NetGalley and Stelliform Press for the ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily and all opinions are my own.
*A side note here as well: Stelliform Press is publishing some incredible stuff. They have swiftly risen to the top of creative, wonderful, earth-focused fiction, art and poetry that is really quite stunning and I am so grateful for their, and their artists, work!
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
🌎☀️
Swoon.
I absolutely loved this magnificent, gorgeous ode – to humanity’s hubris, the natural world and the seemingly unavoidable, calamitous journey we’re on – that turns the idea of a future dystopia on its head.
Not exactly a novel, but a series of loosely connected, light scifi-ish stories spanning our very near future to several millennia away. This book runs the gamut of emotions when faced with the climate ravages overtaking us: terror (fire, flood, drought), guilt (we did this!), resistance (to change, to tech, AI!!), surrender, inspiration and creativity, and sheer joy and wonder at what can be accomplished.
I, like many, am nervous 🤨 about the future role of intelligent tech, machines, AI, etc., and it’s impact on our future. And I was honestly a little concerned how I would relate overall to the book (I was expecting a great deal of negativity to the idea of the drones), but I found Rex’s writing to be moving and poetic while still briskly moving through a vast timeline where the wildcraft drones became something I was rooting for. Each story is individual and has its own merits, but taken as a whole, it’s an inspiring path forward.
Made me laugh, cry, reflect and thrill to the possibilities of this future!
My thanks to NetGalley and Stelliform Press for the ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily and all opinions are my own.
*A side note here as well: Stelliform Press is publishing some incredible stuff. They have swiftly risen to the top of creative, wonderful, earth-focused fiction, art and poetry that is really quite stunning and I am so grateful for their, and their artists, work!
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.