![]() Instead, the original's subtle delineation of the nuances of class and social change is replaced with heavy-handed condemnations of slavery, anti-intellectualism and fundamentalist religion. ![]() ![]() The plot stays surprisingly faithful to Austen the setting is cleverly updated to a futuristic dystopia, but it fails to explore the more interesting societal and technological ramifications. Now he has returned with the fleet of Post explorers who could be the last hope for saving Elliot's heritage, but his bitterness toward Elliot may be hiding a more dangerous secret. None of these "Posts" are more clever than Kai, her best friend until he ran away four years ago. ![]() Her people will starve without recourse to forbidden technology, and more and more Post-Reduced children are being born. But she has begun to question her duty her family seems more interested in luxurious leisure than estate management. ![]() A post-apocalyptic retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion scores high for ingenuity but loses points with sledgehammer morality.Įlliot North is a Luddite, one of the elite destined to care for the mentally Reduced remnant after human genetic engineering went catastrophically wrong. ![]()
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