I think this experience is no different to other novels set in the future as well as the fast:
- The Secret River
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Blood Meridian
The books challenge us how we live without telling us how to live.
I am currently read (or listening to be correct) to Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway. What interests me is the idea of the future. There are many aspects of the novel that seem far beyond today, yet at the same time there is an uncanny plausibility that haunts the whole time.