It has not ended.” For those who would call the Pox bad luck -“accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crisis” - our historian has even more bad news: “It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas. It began well before 2015, perhaps even before the turn of the millennium. “I have read,” writes one of the book’s four narrators, “that the period of upheaval that journalists have begun to refer to as ‘the Apocalypse’ or more commonly, more bitterly, ‘the Pox’ lasted from 2015 through 2030 - a decade and a half of chaos.” And before you buckle in to at least enjoy what’s left of 2014, take note: “This is untrue. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents. THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E.
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