The Past Is Red

NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION

A melancholic expression of post-apocalyptic nostalgia. What happens when you are born on a big garbage patch in the sea, knowing only your current way of life? What happens when you discover the past? Many will long for the past, get stuck in it, try to trod backwards down a path of which the beginning has long fallen into earth. Others will try to move forward in some way, adapting to the current world, accepting how things are. This is one of the many themes of this novella.

It's a very honest yet fun perspective on life on a post-climate-apocalypse Earth. Very environmentalist and certainly deserving of the Le Guin nomination.

We're all fuckwits, eh?
3.5 stars.