Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
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Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.
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Review based on an #arc given to me for free by Tor.Com Publishing. It is scheduled for release on March 13, 2018.
Man, but this was a fun read. The characters are wonderful to read about (I love Kiki and Minh), and though it takes a while to really get into the worldbuilding, once you grasp it it's a really well-built, well thought-out world that projects a future that might not be too long in coming if we keep on going down the road we're on right now. See, Robson's novella overtly tackles climate change, but it does more than that: it suggests that we need to alter our thinking totally, in the sense that we should do the right thing, no matter how difficult or impossible, and that we should plan for the long-term. Doing the right thing and planning for the long-term might be hard, but they're important - maybe not for us living in the here and now, but for those who will come after us. The present is a trust we hold for the future, after all, and it would be remiss of us to waste it.
Not bad, but didn't really engage me. The vignettes at the beginning of each chapter gave away most of the story, so the ending was very meh...
