No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Brooke Bolander's work can be hard to read. Sometimes it's just in-your-face violent. At other times she crosses over into unsparing hard truth. That's when she's at her best, and this story represents that side. Life on earth is not going to come to an end because of humans, but it's going to be so different that humans as they are won't be able to live outside of bubbles. Neither will any other complex oxygen-breathing creature. That's what Bolander is describing here. It's a fable. Fables can clarify what is only dimly seen in reality. Like all apocalyptic SF, Bolander is mourning what we have not yet lost.
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