"The idea of everything falling apart became too real," Kimi Eisele told me over the phone, when I asked her about the inspiration for her new novel, The Lightest Object in the Universe. Set in the aftermath of the lightning-fast fall of modern civilization , The Lightest Object in the Universe was not, as one might think, written in response to recent news about the urgency of climate change or Trump's election.
Eisele, however, goes a different route altogether, offering more than just a glimpse of hope, but rather a brightly expansive, and even optimistic vision of a world where survival isn't necessarily a zero-sum game, and it's possible to have trust in other people, even as familiar systems and institutions have collapsed.
There's something obviously utopian about this setup, something that feeds into the dream that we've all had at one time or another, that maybe it wouldn't be so bad if all our existing, invasive technology just vanished, maybe life could be better that way."I am not so naive to think life would be so much better if we just unplugged," Eisele said to me, when I told her how alluring I sometimes find that prospect.
And while it is important, at times, to contemplate the worst-case scenario of society's collapse, to imagine what will happen if everything turns bad, if only so we can figure out how to prevent that from happening, it feels all the more important to have novels like this that imagine how it will be if everything goes bad, but not everyone does—many people remain good.
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