![]() ![]() So what’s the point of the story? Any (minimal) investment I still had in it plunged to zero on my “How much do I care about what happens next” meter. If the end of the world is coming anyway, nothing the Signalman or his colleagues from Albany do has any meaning. ![]() That right there killed the story for me. But the author includes a detailed description of her little trip into the future before the middle of the book… She sees all that and chooses not to say a word about it to anybody. She goes into the future and sees that in the year 2043, human civilization is pretty much extinct, the remaining humans infected and changed beyond recognition by the fungus, and aliens are controlling the skies. So this character can get “unstuck” from the present and let her mind travel to all the moments she lived in the past or will live in the future. In fact, I think that by giving one of her characters the ability to cast her mind both into the past and the future, the author effectively shot herself in the foot and killed her story. ![]() The End.Įven that little bit of story could have been interesting if the characters were engaging enough to empathize with or the stakes high enough to create tension. ![]() It’s implied that this is the curtain call for humanity. They take the survivor to a secured facility where she dies in an explosion of alien spores. They discover the bodies of the cultist and one survivor. ![]()
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