Overall the plot was infuriating with way too high a suspension of disbelief, nonsensical story elements, dull unimaginative powers and system and limp characters. This book does pose some good questions about ethics, people’s effects on the planet, climate change, etc.

His predictions of doom stem from two factors — demographic decline, and America’s withdrawal from the world system. For a little relief from nuclear war and pandemics, enter the robopocalypse—which, by the way, is exactly what it sounds like. In undoing traditional structure, and mastering the deconstructed narrative, he maintains a sense of wit and wonder about life and death, reality and fiction, and the elusive nature of memory. It is a gathering space, an experiment, and an invitation towards building formations of life outside of the cage of colonialism and capitalism. In this novel, the world ends while Jon is at a Swiss hotel, far away from everyone he knows and loves.The question is simply whether enough of Zeihan’s pessimistic assumptions are true to drive a worldwide system collapse.

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With no cell service and the closest neighbors over two miles down the road, it’s a city-dweller’s unplugged paradise, right? A classic, and probably King’s best novel (don’t come for me) is a behemoth (famously inspired by The Lord of the Rings) with many threads and characters, all set in a world ravaged by a pandemic caused by a weaponized strain of influenza that is fatal to 99.