Discussion What’s the last novella you read? Make sure you check out Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach on Goodreads. And at the end of the day I’m left wondering, how do we prepare the world for the future generations – for any future at all. At the same time we deal with ideas about body images, humanity, and modifications. There’s the idea of technology impacting history and myths, there’s also this long term planning. The themes, the purpose, the backbone of it is more than just time travel or even helping the planet. What I haven’t quite grasped is the sheer scale of this novella. It feels like an organic meeting of the spirits, like a crash course in getting to know a friend. They don’t dwell on the past or conjure up tons of memories, you find out snippets and pieces. Just like with the world building, you become immediately immersed in their lives. I loved the spirit of Kiki, but the soul of Minh. Not only the world building, but there are some descriptive character that come together. I am still marveling just at the sheer number of pieces that come together seamlessly. And then it becomes clearer, the fog dissipates, and the pieces begin to fit together. You don’t know if it’s past or present or folktale. Robson weaves these snippets of text at the beginning of each chapter. There’s a fantastic lyrical writing quality. We are left to surface on our own and feel the refreshing coolness of the water. There’s no hand holding and incredibly tedious hand holding.
The shock is blinding and initially frigid because Robson doesn’t throw us any life boats. At first it’s like you’ve jumped into the deep end of a pool on a hot summer day. My lasting impression of Robson’s novella is that this entire world building reads effortlessly. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) (Disclaimer: I received this free book as a gift. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology. She’s spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Summaryĭiscover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past. There’s a lyrical quality, but at the same time there’s an incredibly depth that I would fall into over and over again. There’s so much to unpack in Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach that I don’t even feel like I’ve processed all of it.
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