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@cordillera No spoilers: It came out in 1993, but it's set in 2024+, with a young Black woman growing up in a U.S. that is both a horrifying dystopia, and completely recognizable. Octavia Butler saw a lot of threads that were present in the early 90s and before, and projected them into the future, and she was right about how a lot of things would trend.

One of the things I thought about when reading: sometimes hope is not a luxury. It's a dark but hopeful book.