2022/77: How High We Go In The Dark -- Sequoia Nagamatsu

2022/77: How High We Go In The Dark -- Sequoia Nagamatsu

I wish I could taste. I wish I wasn’t so tired all the time. I hate that when I do have the energy to go out, I get angry at all the people who didn’t get the plague or somehow walked away from it scot-free. I hate how the world is finally coming together to help the planet when I’m coming undone. [loc. 3748]

It starts with the discovery of an ancient corpse in the permafrost, part Neanderthal and part something else, and the precautionary (and haphazard) quarantine that follows. Or perhaps it starts when a woman leaves her child behind to embark on a long journey. Or when a robot dog malfunctions. Or when a pig starts to speak.

How High We Go In The Dark is more a collection, a connection, of short stories than a traditional novel: I was reminded of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,( Read more... )