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   lot of what he writes is short fiction in hard-to-find periodicals   
   or anthologies. But I digress.   
      
   EXPECT ME TOMORROW by Christopher Priest (Gollancz, ISBN   
   978-11-4732-3514-4) was published in 2023, and is part of that   
   subgenre sometimes called (for better or worse) "cli-fi"--"climate   
   fiction", or science fiction set in the future during or after   
   serious climatic disruption. For some reason, prehistoric fiction   
   set in an Ice Age, or space fiction set on a harsh planet (I'm   
   looking at you, SPACE PRISON), isn't included.   
      
   But EXPECT ME TOMORROW is more than that. It has four threads that   
   take place during the 1850s, the 1870s, the 1890s, and the 2050s.   
   These threads interweave in ways that, I must warn you, are not   
   entirely explained. And one of the threads is almost straight   
   history except for its connection to one of the other threads.   
      
   (Priest also did multiple threads in time in other novels, notably   
   THE PRESTIGE.)   
      
   The climate part reminded me of Robert Frost's poem, "Fire and   
   Ice":   
      
            Some say the world will end in fire,   
            Some say in ice.   
            From what I've tasted of desire   
            I hold with those who favor fire.   
            But if it had to perish twice,   
            I think I know enough of hate   
            To say that for destruction ice   
            Is also great   
            And would suffice.   
      
   I doubt Priest was inspired by this, since in any case science   
   seems (or seemed) to support his characters' beliefs and actions.   
      
   Of course I recommend this, because I recommend all of Priest's   
   work. [-ecl]   
      
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                                        Evelyn C. Leeper   
                                        evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
      
              Don't worry about things that you have no control over,   
              because you have no control over them. Don't worry   
              about things that you have control over, because you   
              have control over them.   
                                              --Mickey Rivers   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)