What Comes After America

Emily St. John Mandel writes science fiction, with the accent firmly on fiction. Imagination, not technical verisimilitude, is her strength; she wisely disregards the scientific in favor of the human. Her indifference to plausibility is a measure of her confidence as a storyteller, and helps snare readers like me, who have a mild allergic reaction to postapocalyptic settings and outer-space odysseys. Her previous novel featured time travel, interplanetary travel, and a cosmic glitch; now, in her

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