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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 23:27:58 JST Evan Prodromou

   I'm reading "The Broken Earth" and it's just so devastating all the time. I don't think I've read any speculative fiction this dark since "A Song of Ice and Fire."

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 00:36:52 JST Evan Prodromou

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     The questions raised are so relevant for today; the changing of the world, the question of whether destroying an old and unjust order is worth the destruction of so much more; the value of traditional wisdom; what place people of the present have in the long line of time and what we owe to others in other places on that line; what obligations persecuted people have to the rest of the world.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:28:58 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Dave Neary

     @dneary yes, all very good series!

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     Dave Neary (dneary@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:28:59 JST Dave Neary

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     @evan Did you ever read Octavia Butler's parable series? In 2021 (while on a post-apocalyptic streak) I read "Parable of the Sower", "The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and "Station Eleven" by Emily St John Mandel - they are all deliciously dark, I recommend them all. Now adding "The Broken Earth" to my reading list.