![]() But while so much of their lives are defined by pain, the stackers keep moving forward, searching for meaning and fleeting moments of joy in a world designed to destroy them. With no hope of circumstances improving, they’ve long ago come to accept that grief will be the primary constant in their inevitably short lives - if the cancerous air doesn’t kill them, the automated drone police will. ![]() Sadie Gennis, who recommended the book, wrote:Ī nonlinear series of vignettes, Goliath switches between several characters’ perspectives, but the main focus is on a group of stackers, a Black and brown crew of workers who scrape by salvaging bricks from demolished buildings to send to the colonies. ![]() But some of these colonists are coming back - and beginning to gentrify the very same planet they fled from. Overall, Fevered Star is a solid second book, though a tad overweighed with plot and characters, and it sets up the promise of an explosive conclusion in the last book of the trilogy. ![]() One of our favorite SFF books of 2022, Goliath is set in the 2050s, at a point where white flight to space colonies has left BIPOC people to survive on a broken, climate-crisis-stricken Earth. Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sunfinalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and. Image: Tor/Macmillan Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi ![]()
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