2021/121: The Heavens -- Sandra Newman

2021/121: The Heavens -- Sandra Newman

... in waking life, she was dogged by anomalies, discrepancies, attacks of jamais vu. In every street, there were new stores and restaurants, appearing at a pace that seemed impossible even for New York. She didn’t know most of the songs on the radio. She didn’t know half of the movie stars. [loc. 628]

New York City, in the year 2000: a Green woman senator is president, astronauts have landed on Mars, the Jerusalem peace treaty has been signed and carbon emissions have declined rapidly. '...the first year with no war at all, when you opened up the newspaper like opening a gift' [loc. 350]. ( Read more... )