The Great Transition

The Great Transition, Nick Fuller Googins. Similar sort of territory as Lost Cause - an America that has undergone a massive transformation to deal with the climate crisis and try to reach sustainability - but a better book. This one focuses on the tension in one family over the question of how do you know when you've gone far enough, permanent revolution vs can there be a post-revolution. Is it enough to build a better world or does justice demand punishment. Not outstanding, but I continue to be interested in how different people imagine this kind of scenario. This one has a retreat to the north with a making-over of current big cities into industrial-only kind of zones with temporary residents.

One content note for waaaaay too much music nostalgia... I find it so tedious when an author decides their future teens will *just happen* to love the music of the author's own era. I want to say this could never happen but unfortunately I did personally listen to a lot of oldies radio in high school, and big band on cds, so, like, this second-half-of-the-21st-century kid caring about U2 or the Cranberries isn't that much more far-fetched than teen me being into Glenn Miller or Elvis. It's lazy Ready-Player-One writing though, boo.