Image: MIT Press MIT Press’ Stanislaw Lem series (And if you missed them, here were our January picks.) Feb. The cold weather doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon, and February brings plenty of new books to pick up while we wait for warmer weather to arrive. While reading it, I came across a tweet that seems to underscore his argument: “Dystopia is a white people word for ‘what if all that shit happened TO US?” It’s certainly not a new trope in speculative fiction literature, but Rice puts an interesting spin on it. It’s a fitting novel for the temperature, Rice uses it to examine the fragility of civilization and how dependent society has become on infrastructure. Rice, a member of the Wasauksing First Nation, follows Evan Whitesky, who has to care for his young family and help his community hold together as a massive blackout cuts power throughout North America. The end of January brought about frigid temperatures and a new layer of snow, which was the perfect background for the book that I’ve been reading lately: Waubgeshig Rice’s 2018 novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, an intriguing post-apocalyptic novel set in Northern Canada.
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