![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novella tells two stories simultaneously, one set in ancient Mesopotamia and the other in Minh’s present. Lucky Peach has as much world building as most full-length novels. Robson lured me in with the promise of time travel and post-apocalyptic survival, lulled me with R&D proposals financial finagling, and hit me hard with an epic adventure. This novella is far bigger on the inside than its 230 pages belie. So loudly I woke my pet rat up out of his nap and sent him skittering under the couch. If the mark of a good book is that regardless of length, it leaves you panting for more, then Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach is one of the greats. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.” (via Goodreads) She’s spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. “ Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past. ![]()
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