Adam lives with his sister and his out-of-work mother after his father – also now out of work – abandoned them. After the Vuvv made contact with Earth, their gentle insinuation of themselves and their technologies and culture into the elite societies of human-kind has resulted in widespread poverty, hunger, and dependency for the majority of those who were once the comfortable middle and upper classes of the developed world. Depicting a world in which all humans suffer the inequalities and deprivations that are currently endured by the developing world and the poor, this novel is as much about what it means to be human as it is about what aliens might be like.Īspiring artist Adam is living through the immediate aftermath of an alien invasion. Eschewing the more sensational temptations of alien technologies and inter-species warfare, Anderson’s novel instead provides a chilling prediction about what would happen if we were to meet a race that shared our fundamental values and cultural frameworks but surpassed our technological abilities. Anderson’s thought-provoking new novella, Landscape with Invisible Hand. Science fiction meets gritty realism in M.
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