Non-Hobbesian apocalypses?

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison has repeated apocalypse built in to the … storytelling-everything (plot, background, world, motivation, conflict, characters). The people of the world band together out of necessity to form comms, short for community, and it’s maybe a little warlike but also there’s cooperation and a reimagining of revolution against a sort of facism in a world where technology keeps getting reset cuz the world keeps ending. It’s a mind-expanding trilogy. I loved it so much. It also deals with love and abuse and parenthood and abuse and relationships of all different kinds and abuse and power and abuse. It is a lot. It’s really good.

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