Fictions post-apocalyptic they always pose a double aspect of possible total destruction and hope for rebirth. In this case, Fletcher also pulls the typical sketches that clarify how this strange point was reached where the survivors are in charge of rebuilding their world amid the deaf echo of what was left behind, buried by the catastrophe of the moment.
The perspective of the lucky survivors is in this case offered by CA Fletcher, that kinder vision, necessary for these days. Because it was one thing to recreate disasters when we all lived in that recent period without a threatening virus that turned everything upside down.
The paradigm of starting over, which arises on many occasions during our current inertia, this forward flight through which the world moves, appears like an armistice with our planet, which we have so gladly bombarded as if it were of an enemy to bend.
The matter can be accused of naive. But do not be fooled, behind the allegory there is an assumption of guilt, an atonement for sins that accumulate in us due to the manifest inability to amend an evolution marked by ambitions rather than by balances ... Anyway, let's read science fiction with a moral positive. As rarely happens in this genre.
My name is Gray. I have never been to school. I have never had friends and in my entire life I have not met enough people to play a soccer game. My parents have told me that the world was full of people before, before it was empty. But we have never felt alone on our island. We have each other, and we have our dogs.
Then the thief came. Novel chosen as one of the best science fiction stories of 2019 according to Kirkus Reviews. A story in the style of The Road but with a hopeful touch.
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