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Dear Diary; nature has gone haywire

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

December 29, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A young Native American woman learns that she is pregnant in a time of miracles and disaster; nature has gone haywire. Evolution has sped up, gone sideways, and/or stopped all together. Times are trying. It is a particularly frightening time to be a single person with an unplanned pregnancy- especially when religious-esque government agents are collecting and imprisoning pregnant women. Our narrator, Cedar, gives us her story through the pages of her diary. She is keeping accounts of her body and the world around her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: adoption, Catholicism, cultural identity, dystopian future, evolution, handmaid's tale, Louise Erdrich, magical realism, marital law, miracles, Motherhood, native voices, reproductive rights

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: adoption, Catholicism, cultural identity, dystopian future, evolution, handmaid's tale, Louise Erdrich, magical realism, marital law, miracles, Motherhood, native voices, reproductive rights ·
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What are you worth?

84K by Claire North

January 26, 2019 by Claire Badger 2 Comments

Theo is an average citizen in a fairly average dystopia. You know the kind: human rights violations are normal, everyone is scared, and the government wields unilateral power with virtually no opposition; or, to be more accurate, The Company (a mega corp) runs the government, which wields power with virtually no opposition. Everyday, Theo gets up, goes to work, calculates the financial costs of crimes to society, slaps a bill on the perpetrator, bothers absolutely no one, stands up not even for himself (to the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, 1984, 84K, British, capitalism, children of men, Claire North, dystopia, handmaid's tale, sci-fi, spec-fic, Speculative Fiction

Claire Badger's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, 1984, 84K, British, capitalism, children of men, Claire North, dystopia, handmaid's tale, sci-fi, spec-fic, Speculative Fiction ·
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