thoroughly imagined, ideologically serious & thorough, with a lot of narrative momentum + scientific and theoretical rigor. the strange friendship between Mary and Frank at the center of the narrative was complex, fascinating, and real. the story captured a future sweep of history, and somehow managed to grapple with the prospect of climate induced megadeth with an encouraging utopian hopefulness. in some ways this feels like an antidote to mark fisher’s capitalist realism – an engrossing dream about an alternative to the death march we’re on