China Mieville's Perdido Street Station series, Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy (and Three Californias), Pohl's Merchants of Venus ...https://twitter.com/Hugo_Book_Club/status/1226927328434905088 …
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7/ In the first chapter of The Gold Coast, chapter 1, the protagonists try to dig up an old destroyed early 20th century building, to find a piece of wooden timber (wood! so weird and unlike current dystopian sprawl building materials).
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8/ In the first chapter of Pacific Edge, chapter 1, the protagonists are digging up old asphalt pavement, to re-wild the land. Obviously this was very conscious writing choice. Three novels, three chapters ones, three times a group of friends is LITERALLY EXCAVATING THE PAST
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9/ ...and engaging with it, from the perspective of their own particular world * the past looks silver, but is cheap plastic * the past was made out of wood, and better than concrete sprawl * the past was made out of asphalt, and was bad ; greenery is better DAMN that's good
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