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Model seed, model cities

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

March 19, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

I chose this book after reading this review   (thanks, anana!). I have to say I agree with anana’s general perspective that this book is ambitious and mostly successful. What drew me in was the comparison to Station Eleven, which I loved. If you’re interested in literary fiction about climate change and the potential disasters it might bring to Earth as we know it, you’ll likely enjoy this novel. The structure relies on the story of a single family, told across two hundred years – from the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Erin Swan, Women's History Month

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Erin Swan, Women's History Month ·
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Catnip For People Who Love the End of the World

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

December 7, 2022 by anana 2 Comments

I’m drawn to climate catastrophe and dystopian novels the same way some people are drawn to horror or crime stories: seeing fictional representations of my worst fears are somehow calming to me. Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan was compared to Station Eleven and Severence on its Goodread page, so I put it in my library queue figuring it would basically be like catnip for me.  Walk the Vanished Earth is difficult to describe, because it encompasses so much: seven generations, two planets, 200 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: apocalyptic, Erin Swan, Speculative Fiction

anana's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: apocalyptic, Erin Swan, Speculative Fiction ·
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