The Future Library

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English language

Published Sept. 7, 2021 by Tom Doherty Associates.

ISBN:
978-1-250-82867-5
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ISFDB ID:
2890265

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4 stars (3 reviews)

More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our world.

Inspired by the real-life "Future Library," a long-term environmental and literary public art project currently underway in the Norwegian wilderness.

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A dark future for a world written in trees.

3 stars

Based on the actual Future Library project, where stories are collected to be published in a hundred years time on trees planted at the beginning of the project, this story takes a fantastical and magical spin by imagining the project in a world on the brink of ecological disaster, and the forest is the last remaining one in the world.

Told in first person by the curator of the project, the story jumps in time from the beginning of the project to where the first tree was felled, to be used to publish the first story collected, and after. This is where things begin to turn strange, as the narrator realizes a truth about the trees that the Foundation may not want the dying world to hear, and has her jailed as an eco-terrorist to bury the truth.

It is a bleak story of a world with no ecological future, …