The Here and Now
I tried to read The Here and Now but it has the dumbest premise and is just not believable at all. Here is a paragraph from the book:It is unfair. People versus mosquito. Who should win? We built rockets and cathedrals. We wrote poems and symphonies. We found a passage through time. And yet. We also wreck the planet for our own habitation and the mosquito will win. Unless we succeed in changing course, it will win.
So in the future they have all these advances. They can time travel, and they've eradicated AIDS, they can genetically alter themselves but they can't cure dengue fever? Which isn't that deadly of a disease to begin with; but somehow it mutates and is sexually transmitted or some such nonsense and kills millions of people. Oh and of course we are wrecking the planet and those mosquitoes are going to get us if we don't stop the global warming.
Nope, no I just can't...
