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Immense book set in three centuries and addressing climate change and what happens... but needed trigger warning...

This was some bullshit. Set in three time periods, all of which sucked:

1012 — Mayan twelve year old twins have sex, give sexy enemas (Ew), cut, and get tortured.

2012 — Girl is “sex positive” somehow despite only having bad sex. Gets aroused by cave.

3012 — Written during the half hour between when no one heard of Latinx and when Latinx was offensive. In the future everything was Hermanix this and Ninx that. No book will ever be more dateable.

I‘m ambivalent overall on trigger warnings, but this book also has graphic pedophilia and incest, and there‘s no warning about that.

Also, all three (children having incestuous sex and cutting) are all presented in a positive light, which strikes me as possibly more upsetting than just that they are “depicted.”

Thank you so much for this book @Reggie it was such a page turner! I was desperate to get home today to finish it. This is a mind blowing ride from 1012 Mayan civilisation to 2012 Belize to a post climate disaster 3012 nomadic civilisation. In each setting we are following two to three characters questing to find their truth, god, & transformation. There is tension and adrenaline in each timeline but it is also philosophical & thought provoking⬇️

My October book from the Goldsboro SFF subscription came in a while back but I forgot to post about until now! 😁 This edition has a naked cover with beautiful gold embossed designs on the front and back covers as well as lovely green painted edges! 😍 I'm also really excited about this title! I've been eyeing up the library copy for weeks now! #goldsboro #goldsborobooks

Late night reads with some Apple pie.

#scifi #recommendedbooks #maya #belize

Wow! Alternating between 3 timelines—Mayan civilization in 1012; Belize in 2012; & post environmental disaster 3012—this hefty audacious novel tackles big ideas of how best to live on our planet. Monica Byrne‘s vision of a worldwide nomadic sex-positive society that evolves from climate refugees gives me hope. You may need patience for Kriol dialogue, Spanish, & invented future vocabulary that includes many terms for personal identity.

The human race has outgrown this way of life. Just like we outgrew monarchy and capitalism.

“What does entropy have to do with desire?”
“Well, as the universe comes apart, everything we desire will get farther and farther away. So we‘ll have to work harder to get it.”

In the year 3012 in this novel, people have augmented intelligence implants that can translate the languages of other beings. If you are curious, cicadas have this to say: “The moon is a lemon too!” (Which reminds me of Laura Jean McKay‘s The Animals in That Country.)

Birds are not birds; they are messengers.
This world is a world of deceptions.
This world is merely a representation of representations.
The star we see is not the actual star.

I‘ve got seven books on the go at the moment but I‘ve become so caught up in the tagged novel that the others have temporarily fallen by the wayside.

Mayan earspools come up several times in this novel, so I decided to Google some images.

(Internet image)

Literary serendipity strikes again: concurrent books feature a main character who loses one eye on account of a nonhuman animal. (The other book is The Apollo Murders, which could also have used the tagged book‘s dust jacket image.)

Can‘t remember what prompted me to check this out.. but hey looks good! #library #scifi

Reading Envy Podcast Episode 229: Second Contact with Tom Merritt

Author and podcaster Tom Merritt joins Jenny to talk about books, mostly science fiction and fantasy, and Tom shares about his newest book, Project V.E.R.A. Jenny knows Tom from the Sword and Laser Book Club and Podcast, but it's not his only project!

https://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy229

I received an ARC of this book and really wanted to love it, but alas no. One of the main characters, Leah, just did not seem like a real person: sex-positivity is not a personality. Of the three parallel timelines, I found the elaborate world-building of 3012 the most interesting; the ancient Mayan twincest and 2012 tourism were just not as compelling, although Belize itself was a vivid setting. Also kind of romanticized cutting--big TW there.