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2016/78: The Age of Miracles -- Karen Thompson Walker
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 04:58 am2016/78: The Age of Miracles -- Karen Thompson Walker
The Earth's rotation slows, making days longer: ecological and sociological disaster ensue, as crops fail, the magnetosphere thins, and the US Government decrees that America will run on 'clock time' -- meaning that noon might be the middle of the dark hours.
This is not the plot, though: this is the background. ( non-spoilery )
After the slowing, every action required a little more force than it used to. The physics had changed. Take, for example, the slightly increased drag of a hand on a knife or a finger on a trigger. From then on, we all had a little more time to decide what not to do. And who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?[loc. 525]
The Earth's rotation slows, making days longer: ecological and sociological disaster ensue, as crops fail, the magnetosphere thins, and the US Government decrees that America will run on 'clock time' -- meaning that noon might be the middle of the dark hours.
This is not the plot, though: this is the background. ( non-spoilery )
