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lmccarls's review against another edition
5.0
This doesn't even feel like fiction, and the bits about the future already feel like fact. It doesn't place blame on any single ideology, because it's not about placing blame on someone -- it's about identifying all the little things that we didn't realize created a culture of inaction.
transmortalinjection's review against another edition
3.0
Questionable use of a Chinese boogeyman: “the West must pick up the slack if it doesn’t want to lose to ~environments authoritarianism~!” But there’s an excellent critique of statistical significance.
jhoffmann's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
deborama's review against another edition
2.0
Interesting idea but the finished product is a little bit disappointing.
eabourland's review against another edition
5.0
While this is fiction, a letter from a chastened future written by a regretful scholar, it is based on solid and modern science, and forms a candid appraisal of the deleterious effect of media, fear, and money on sound decision-making. A brief, ominous, well-crafted story you can read in one sitting. It's enjoyable as a good SF yarn, yet the outcome it describes, given world policy on anthropogenic climate change, is plausible and even likely.
Well, enjoy.
Well, enjoy.