We Speak Through the Mountain

Really enjoyed the second novella in this series. Am excited for the third!

In this novella, Mohamed delves deeper into the main theses she's been setting up. (And the worldbuilding + values are top notch.) This is a near future (2100?) climate justice spec fic, about a pro-social girl from a grungy post-apocalyptic village coming to study at a university which is preserved in a biodome of individualistic, elitist modernity. The people in this dome are basically the people in EM Forster's The Machine Stops - aka, they are us, right now, pecking away at our screens and co-watching YouTube together rather than dropping into each other's houses (shriek).

I love the voice. I love the characters, especially the salt o' the earth grungy punks. I love the protagonist's anarchist disobedience in the service of pro-social values. Bravissima! Kinda like Cory Doctorow, sans tech nerdery. Also, as I said in my review of the first one, kind of like Last of Us, sans macho libertarian ammosexuality hee hee.