Blue Skies - Supernormal Reads

Paperback, 400 pages

German language

Published Nov. 14, 2024 by dtv.

ISBN:: 978-3-423-14908-2

(1 review)

Kalifornien geht in Flammen auf, Der Countdown zur Apokalypse läuft: Kalifornien geht in Flammen auf, Überschwemmungen bedrohen Florida. »Der Planet stirbt, siehst du das nicht?«, wirft Cooper seiner Mutter vor, die ihre Küche gehorsam auf frittierte Heuschrecken umstellt. Heftige Diskussionen gibt es auch mit Schwester Cat. Sie hat sich als Haustier einen Tigerpython namens Willie angeschafft, den sie sich wie ein glitzerndes Juwel um die Schultern hängt. Die Frage nach dem Verhältnis zur Umwelt geht wie ein Riss durch die Familie, bis eines Nachts Willie aus dem Terrarium verschwindet.

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ralentina reviewed Blue Skies by T. C. Boyle

Climate change realism

4 stars

Gripping, depressing, a very realistic. One two-star goodreads review complains: 'Blue Skies is like reading a AITA post, where the person is clearly the Ahole, except it's almost 400 pages and that all characters in the book are Aholes.' This is spot on, except that we are all assholes when it comes to climate change: some of us are just generally assholes, dudes driving Teslas and refusing to change their baby's nappies, some are trying to feel better by eating lab-farmed meat and crickets, and some are getting angry at humanity, raging at our collective failure to take the end of our world seriously, and becoming really annoying in the process. None of it is going to fix things ( and sure, the solution is collective action but that's easier said than done). So we still go on, trying to protect our little lives, hosting dinner parties, furnishing …

Gripping, depressing, a very realistic. One two-star goodreads review complains: 'Blue Skies is like reading a AITA post, where the person is clearly the Ahole, except it's almost 400 pages and that all characters in the book are Aholes.' This is spot on, except that we are all assholes when it comes to climate change: some of us are just generally assholes, dudes driving Teslas and refusing to change their baby's nappies, some are trying to feel better by eating lab-farmed meat and crickets, and some are getting angry at humanity, raging at our collective failure to take the end of our world seriously, and becoming really annoying in the process. None of it is going to fix things ( and sure, the solution is collective action but that's easier said than done). So we still go on, trying to protect our little lives, hosting dinner parties, furnishing homes, caring for children whether they are toddler of about to get marrying, tending to parched gardens and counting bees. What else are we supposed to do? Sorry, Larissa-from-goodreads, if it makes us sound awful, if it makes for a plot with no conflict, no resolution and no ending.

Subjects

Climate catastrophe
Climate change
Dystopia
Science fiction
Climate fiction