Catastrophizing vs Prediction.

The Past is Red (TPIR), One Day All of This will Be Yours(ODATWBY), Midway Relics and Dying Breeds (MRDB) and now Permafrost.  At what point is speculative fiction becoming a predictive model for a not to distant future. I'm beginning to think these authors are time travelers and are begging us to HEED their words. 

In MRDB - a version of Greenpeace is in power. In TPIR, basically Elon Musk, Mark Shuttleworth and all the other billionaire leeches succeed in getting off planet and onto Mars. ODATWBY is the most depressing because anarchy gives rise to a time-travelling homicidal Bluebeard soldier.

In Permafrost, WHO or an iteration of the World Health Organization is the remaining socio-economic and political power in a future just about 100 years from now... food is scarce,and the ability to produce crops to develop an artificial-agro industry is non existent as a result of a massive event in the past rendering future tech almost non-existent. 

Enter Director Cho, The Brothers Karamasov and 5 pilots including Lidia Lidova - our seventy year old protagonist.

Plot/Storyline: Time Travel via Body snatching. How refreshing.
Characters: Having characters in their late forties and well into the seventies was different and refreshing.  We're all going to age, yet age representation in books seems to have gone backwards. Tons of books for us in the 30s and 20s and of course the YA demographic but gone are the days of the 40s onwards being represented in the roles of main protagonists. This was a welcome change.
Favorite scene: The introduction to The Bothers. A short scene but for some reason it's impactful.
Favorite Quote/Concept: Paradox itself is ... not entirely paradoxical (Dr Cho on the Lidova Paradox Noise conundrum in time travel)
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Challenge Prompt: 150 Speculative Fiction / Alastair Reynolds Standalone or Series