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Here's an excellent book to read in a day while staving off covidpocalypse at a vaccination center. It's reassuring that 2020, in all its magisterial crisis, never even approached the economic-environmental collapse Butler envisions here. No, that's still to come, even if she spotted it back in the early 90s. Gripping throughout, though taken at all at once, it's the microcosm of society attempting to hold itself together against all evidence in the first half that holds the much greater philosophic weight than the kind of Prepper Fever Dream that takes over in the second half, which probably plays rather less well in 2020/1. Still, I devoured this like a slice of acorn bread.

Also, these Hachette covers for Butler's Earthseed books are completely awful. I guess they were trying to get away from the sci-fi pulp look (which Butler never really gets to have anyway) but surely this solution appeals to absolutely no one. This deserves better!