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A review by davesag
Clade by James Bradley

4.0

This is a pleasingly sad book. None of the characters are very happy, and the world they live in seems to go from awful to worse. Yet there is a glimmer of optimism here.

Bradley's writing puts me in mind of the British hard sci-fi writer Stephen Baxter. Terrible things happen but life goes on and people adapt and species evolve.

His vision of a near future rent by climate change, pandemics, and technological dependency is all too realistic. He lances the boil of human nature as effectively as any nurse.