When Polly makes one bad decision after another, she can be frustrating but her motivations are understandable. Lim paints a strange and unfamiliar world with her novel, full of fascinating social commentary on class differences, racism and sexism. It’s a complicated plot, but Lim’s steady prose and deft character development ensured that I was hooked on Polly’s story from beginning to end. But when she awakens, Polly is five years late, Frank is nowhere to be found and the America she left behind no longer exists. A new technology allows people to travel through time if Polly agrees to travel 12 years into the future to help rebuild America after the pandemic passes, Frank will receive treatment. Polly is very much in love with her boyfriend, Frank, so when he’s diagnosed with the flu that is killing so many people, she decides to take drastic action to get him the medicine he needs.
But when they decide they need more, they risk everything to figure out whether it’s possible, regardless of what the cost may be. In these three works of science fiction, the main characters live under the impression that figuring out how to survive in a cruel, merciless society is enough.
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