A review by neonpomegranate
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
5.0
Annalee is always extremely prescient, both in their fiction and non-fiction. In this case, horrifyingly, they correctly portray that the Comstock Act is never dead and can always be brought back to life to try to kill us (at the time of this writing, it’s being used by the far right to try to end legal access to medication abortion in the US).
Annalee has huge, world- and time- spanning ideas and that’s fun to experience as a reader. I love their work and I find their desire to be a hard sci fi writer - where the science is always real in the work - really funny in the best way, since they had to abandon it for this premise.
Don’t skip the notes at the back. They’ve changed how I hear one meme-song forever. Experiencing learning history this way is so pleasurable.
Annalee has huge, world- and time- spanning ideas and that’s fun to experience as a reader. I love their work and I find their desire to be a hard sci fi writer - where the science is always real in the work - really funny in the best way, since they had to abandon it for this premise.
Don’t skip the notes at the back. They’ve changed how I hear one meme-song forever. Experiencing learning history this way is so pleasurable.