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Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro Review

#KlaraandtheSun #KazuoIshiguro #scifi #scifinovel #dystopia #dystopian #dystopiannovel #novel #book #bookreview

https://popculturemaniacs.com/klara-and-the-sun-kazuo-ishiguro-review/

For those not familiar with #OctaviaButler's #ParableOfTheSower, here is some of the plot (via Wikipedia):

"Beginning in 2024, when society in the United States has grown unstable due to #ClimateChange, growing wealth #inequality, and #CorporateGreed, Parable of the Sower takes the form of a journal kept by Lauren Oya Olamina, an #AfricanAmerican teenager. Her mother abused drugs during her pregnancy and left Lauren with "hyper-#empathy" or "sharing": the uncontrollable ability to feel the sensations she witnesses in others, particularly the abundant pain in her world.

"Lauren grows up in the remnants of a gated community in Robledo, California, twenty miles from Los Angeles, where she and her neighbors struggle but are separate from the abject poverty of the world outside. Outside of the community are numerous #homeless and mutilated individuals who resent the community members for their relative affluence. Public services such as police or firefighters are untrustworthy, exploiting their positions for profit and making little effort to help."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sower_(novel)

#ACAB #IncomeInequity #Futurism #Afrofuturism #UnitedStates #Dystopia #DystopianNovel