No comets crashing, nothing you could really call a nuclear war. At some point during that span came the Jackpot, an “androgenic, systemic, multiplex” catastrophe. The story takes place during two periods, the early 2030s and the turn of the (next) century. )ĭystopian? Eight episodes in and I think that’s a reasonable description. This piece will contain spoilers and is based on both the television show and book. (Season one ended last December, and it’s been renewed for a second. Case in point: The Peripheral, the Amazon Prime series based on William Gibson’s 2014 book of the same name. There’s so much pessimistic, Down Wing science fiction out there that I have to scrounge whatever snippets of Up Wing, techno-solutionist optimism wherever I can.
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