What Fiction are you reading this week, June 2, 2024

[NanaCat]

30. I didn't want to spoil that detail for you

So I'm glad Hermit did. No, you never get a firm idea of what happened for the world to wind up as it does in ICR. It just is. Science fiction and magical realism sometimes require a bit more suspension of disbelief, for their worlds to make sense. Sometimes you never get the backstory, just roll with it. Sometimes you have to put the book aside and let the implications of what went wrong roll over you. ICR is the latter type of sci-fi, as Hermit makes clear.

I thought it had a great deal to say about the enduring power of human connection and our ability to band together to help one another in the face of a world gone mad.