Idgie Says:
The beginning of this novel was spot on in regards to how socially connected the world is becoming - the constant need for interaction with others, while at the same time sitting silently and not communicating with the person right in front of you, tapping your fingers impatiently because someone doesn't answer your text immediately. Then it all ends. The horror.
Six years later the entire world is in survivalist mode. The story did rather remind me of Station Eleven in the manner of it's aftermath of surviving after an apocalypse,though these people are in worse shape.
I was amused by the beginning of the story, and intrigued by the rest.
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The Feed
A Novel
Nick Clark Windo
9780062651853 | 0062651854
William Morrow (HarperCollins)
Hardcover
March 13, 2018
Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
$26.99 USD, $33.50 CAD
336 pages
Set in a post-apocalyptic world as unique and vividly imagined as those of Station Eleven and The Girl with all the Gifts, a startling and timely debut that explores what it is to be human and what it truly means to be connected in the digital age.
It makes us. It destroys us.
Now, we must learn to live without it.
The
Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It
instantaneously links us to all information and global events as they
break. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared
through it; it is the essential tool everyone relies on to know and
understand the thoughts and feelings of partners, parents, friends,
children, colleagues, bosses, employees . . . in fact, of anyone and
everyone else in the world.
Tom and Kate use The Feed, but Tom has
resisted its addiction, which makes him suspect to his family. After
all, his father created it. But that opposition to constant connection
serves Tom and Kate well when the Feed collapses after a horrific
tragedy shatters the world as they know it.
The Feed’s collapse,
taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive.
Finding food is truly a matter of life or death. Minor ailments,
previously treatable, now kill. And while the collapse has demolished
the trappings of the modern world, it has also eroded trust. In a world
where survival of the fittest is a way of life, there is no one to
depend upon except yourself . . . and maybe even that is no longer true.
Tom
and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. But then
their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing. Who has taken her? How
do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology? And what
happens when you can no longer even be certain that the people you love
are really who they claim to be?