5/26/2023 0 Comments Ark by Veronica RothAs she deals with her task, deals with the seeds, deals with her father’s life and death, and deals with the trajectory of her own life, forever in the shadow of the asteroid, born into the world on the path, she considers life. We are with a young horticulturalist in the wake of her father’s suicide wrapping things up on Earth in Svalbard Global Seed Vault cataloguing entries into a would be ark to collect the fauna of Earth. Humanity is doomed, now under the shadow of an asteroid on a near certain bee line for Earth some decades or years away, but the inevitability of the event is everything. This story is oddly quite subtle and touching. But Veronica Roth was like 22 when she wrote the first one. I have to say that I hated Divergent and thought it was particularly poorly written. They are cheaper individually than as a credit. Each come in around an hour and all amount to a much better Audible Original than the monthly ones tend to be. The audio productions are really good with Evan Rachel Wood, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, David Harbour, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar are the readers of these stories. Blake Crouch tells us in the intro/outro to each story the basic purpose of the collection, and like all such genre anthologies, it’s a mixed bag. Mostly I got this collection because I was interested in some short stories for walks and I like the mix of authors in general.
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