![]() ![]() The most interesting characters, however, are Shana and Benji. People sacrifice health, happiness, and basic comfort to watch over their loved ones, even as they are powerless to change the outcome of a predetermined fate.Īt another time, and in the hands of another writer, many of these characters-unpopular woman politicians, slimy bureaucrats, good-ol’-boy billionaires, right-wing militia leaders-would be cartoonish and one-dimensional, but since reality doesn’t conform to character development, they are just recognizable enough to send a chill racing up the reader’s spine and make you consider that a life lived under the guidance of machines might be preferable to our current reality. People use the onslaught of devastation to push their political agenda, even in the face of extinction. ![]() ![]() Despite the fact that the story opens with a singularity event, the ultimate downfall of humanity is not a disease pandemic or the uprising of robot overlord, but that we are so fundamentally human-our detriment and our grace. ![]() The apocalypse is not set 20 minutes in the future, and the story is concerned not with its aftermath but with the fact of its occurrence. Wendig isn’t so much holding up a mirror to society as he is opening the window. It’s an 800-page epic with the pace of a graphic novel, encompassing all these topics and more, set against the backdrop of a zombie-esque apocalypse. ![]()
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