While it is subversive of dystopia fiction, generally. As it’s mostly just a high degree of verisimilitude of folks living their lives. The prose are fine, but not evocative or particularly interesting in any way. The characters are effective in showing the the everyday aspects of life, as well as a military component. The ending is perfunctory. This was just okay, in every respect.

All the pleasure I got out of it came from a the meta level, where I found it parallels cli-fi without even meaning to. Climate events will similarly impact the peripheral of life on the planet. Only they will probably be first, not last. But the responsibility for change is, again, the first world countries, by a mile. And people will have no choice but to live anxiety ridden lives ridden into the ground. In that way, this book is pertinent and prescient. I only wish the other components of it were more interesting. If it wasn’t so short I doubt I’d have slogged through.