The New Earth is an interesting book and shows that Tsakraklides has talent when it comes to narrative descriptive passages which carry the reader in to the near future with spark clarity. Given us a world where mass media is not to be trusted, people rather get their news from a machine modified voice of reality stars. We also enter a world where freedom of speech has been muted leaving a segment of the population turning to minimalist which walk around in recycled clothes lost in their own thoughts. Social media is where you find out your opinion news and it is the new gospel of the information highway. Before you gasp about a reality star becoming president, let’s say that California has a Kennedy marrying Austrian who is famous for only utter no more than three to five word sentences governing them. We live in a world where anything is possible. Read More
