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407 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2018
The Earth, when seen from space, shows no borders.
"Yet another example of a brilliant Canadian Science Fiction writer virtually no one in this country knows about, outside of the aficionados of the genre. Never reviewed by the Globe, or the National Post. So, who is she, madam Prime Minister? Smart, opinionated, a feminist, a humanist. Frankly, I'm not surprised the ETs selected her."
"Good writers don't blink. They don't shy away from hard truths."
With the death of your imagination, you lose the sense of wonder. But you need wonder. You need it to stay sane, and you need it to keep your heart from turning to stone.
"If freedom had an ugly side, this was it."
1. Boring and smug.
2. Personally and professionally self-satisfied.
3. Indulgent in depicting his own elaborate formation of reoccurring cliches and fetishes.
and
4. uninterested in crafting his, undeniably timely I guess – if not terribly fascinating – critique of capitalism into a readable novel.
bogs
down.
Becomes a chore to read.
Devolves into a series of awkwardly first-draft-ish Lengthy Socratic Dialogues™ and Insightful Anecdotes™ leavened by occasional imagery of Large Scale Nerd Objects© and sequences of Kneeslapping Humor®.fails.
Absolutely (sorry, I'm not sorry).
Is a failure.
Was a disappointment to read (it sucks).
As didactic fiction, as an analysis of economics and sociology, as a thought experiment, the base level feeling of reading it is one of incredulity. One can't believe what one is reading, not entirely because the arguments and analyses being made are unbelievable – they mostly aren't, just boring – but instead because the way they are being presented is so off-putting one doesn't want to allow that the hack doing the presenting might have a point.