gods monsters and the lucky peach by kelly robson

She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. From Kelly Robson, Aurora Award winner, Campbell, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon finalist, and author of Waters of Versaillesĭiscover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past. with a delicious tension carefully developed among the wonderful characters.' -The New York TimesĮxperience this far-reaching, mind-bending science fiction adventure that uses time travel to merge climate fiction with historical fantasy. While I find the world intriguing, it isn’t worth investing so much for so little gain, in my view.Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach E-Kitap Açıklaması The characters are developed, but the setting and the story are not as much. I have to admit that I might be interested in reading a follow-on story, but not if it had the same pace as this one.

The whole book feels like a set up for the main event, but the main event fizzles out and doesn’t really deliver. Most frustrating to me, however, is that the book ends when it just gets going. For example, the main character Minh has robotic octopus-like legs, but her back story is only barely touched on. More, we get glimpses of what happened to make the world what it is, of how people live in their new reality, and of the exoticness of the world. The world that Robson has created is interesting, but it doesn’t feel fleshed out.

I won’t say exactly how, but this is where the “lucky peach” comes in. The crux of the story is a new opportunity for a small group of scientists to learn about an ancient river system. There are a few such enclaves around the world, such as Calgary, where much of the story centers. At the time of the story, this happened quite some time ago, and only “now” are humans coming back up, thanks to engineers and scientists that engineer whole ecosystems to enable humans to survive on the surface. Kelly Robson’s Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach is set in an apocalyptic future, where the earth’s environment has degraded to such an extent that people have been forced underground.

And the story itself matches that oddness, though it doesn’t quite come to fruition, as I would have liked. With a title like that, how can you go wrong? It’s one of the oddest titles I’ve come across.

Gods monsters and the lucky peach by kelly robson