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Ma ling severance5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() A fungal-based disease called Shen Fever, which started in the Chinese province of Shenzen and is spreading, is about to bring down civilisation. The future is more newly arrived grads and tourists in some fruitless search for authenticity …īut their future, as it turns out, is none of these things. ![]() ![]() ![]() The future is more Urban Outfitters, more Sephoras, more Chipotles. The future is more Whole Foods, aisles of refrigerated cut fruit packaged in plastic containers. The future is more condo buildings, more luxury housing bought by shell companies of the globally wealthy. He wants to avoid the future, which he sees as: Disillusioned with life in New York, he wants to leave the rat race and move to the country. She is in a fading relationship with Jonathan. When the book goes back to the beginning of its tale, Candace is contemplating her future. Instead, in Severance Ling Ma has written an ode to the Millennial generation and the intensely, insanely capitalist world in which they live, but with zombies … sort of. But like many recent post-apocalypses, the humanity-ending event is kind of beside the point. Yes, it is another post-apocalyptic survival tale. When Severance opens the apocalypse is underway and people are madly googling survival tips before the internet ‘cave into a sinkhole’ and the electrical grid shuts down. ![]()
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