Background
Published in January of 2023, “The Terraformers” is a book by Annalee Newtiz about the distance future and on a planet called Sask-E. It starts with an Environmental Rescue Team member named Destry who discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. She brokers a treaty with the owners of the planet so that these people can live in peace. Thousands of years later, this treaty and the ideas stemming from it tip the balance of power.
My Thoughts
This book was garbage. It is full of ridiculous concepts and is completely barren of morality. It promotes socialistic goals from the most childish formats imaginable. Everyone and everything is a person in this book complete with rights, feelings, and so on. (E.g. Worms, machines, a door…) Seriously, the only requirement is the ability to speak. By this definition my washing machine is alive because it announces when a load is complete. Should I have to consider how it feels when it breaks down and respect it’s rights to live in it’s “home”? Does it have equal say in my home with everyone else that lives there? These are the deep questions asked by this book. I kept reading to the end and hoping it would get better. It didn’t…
Recommendation
Pure crap.