'To Be Taught If Fortunate' and 'The Second Sleep'
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:05 pm
More by chance than design, I've been reading 2 novels that feature apocalypses.
I should warn readers that this message contains spoilers.
The 1st novel is 'To Be Taught If Fortunate' by Becky Chambers. It's about a team on a decades-long space flight who stop receiving messages from Earth. Eventually, they hear from another spaceship that's just returned to Earth and discovered that civilisation has collapsed due to a giant geomagnetic storm.
The 2nd novel -- I haven't finished it yet -- is 'The Second Sleep' by Robert Harris. It's set 800 years after The Apocalypse, when the quality of life is similar to The Middle Ages. The protagonist reads a copy of a letter written in 2022 whose author thinks civilisation will collapse from 1 of 6 different causes. (The novel is surprisingly funny, though it's mostly a thriller.)
I should warn readers that this message contains spoilers.
The 1st novel is 'To Be Taught If Fortunate' by Becky Chambers. It's about a team on a decades-long space flight who stop receiving messages from Earth. Eventually, they hear from another spaceship that's just returned to Earth and discovered that civilisation has collapsed due to a giant geomagnetic storm.
The 2nd novel -- I haven't finished it yet -- is 'The Second Sleep' by Robert Harris. It's set 800 years after The Apocalypse, when the quality of life is similar to The Middle Ages. The protagonist reads a copy of a letter written in 2022 whose author thinks civilisation will collapse from 1 of 6 different causes. (The novel is surprisingly funny, though it's mostly a thriller.)