Well, given the degree to which humanity fucked up the world in the story, I'd say its not uplifting. It is uplifting compared to The Road, or On The Beach - but what isn't? (The energy storage breakthrough subplot has real utopian potential, actually.)
I took the entire energy storage subplot as a metaphor for labor-powered capitalism vs post-scarcity capitalism.
Although I guess in the years since it's been written it more modernly opines on planet-death-be-damned-hydrocarbon-burning transitioning to renewable energy.
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Windup Girl isn't uplifting? (I kid. Somewhat. I should read more solarpunk)
> Windup Girl isn't uplifting?
Well, given the degree to which humanity fucked up the world in the story, I'd say its not uplifting. It is uplifting compared to The Road, or On The Beach - but what isn't? (The energy storage breakthrough subplot has real utopian potential, actually.)
I took the entire energy storage subplot as a metaphor for labor-powered capitalism vs post-scarcity capitalism.
Although I guess in the years since it's been written it more modernly opines on planet-death-be-damned-hydrocarbon-burning transitioning to renewable energy.