![]() In Company Town, technology is better, faster and cheaper but, there is an ever-widening gap between the top percent of the population and everyone else. For the most part, if one resides in North America there are privileges that keep one shielded from the realities our fellow human beings experience on this world. If a novel were set today in Aleppo, Syria might it not be seen as dystopian from the perspective of those in that time? The same could be said for fiction in our current time took place in a sweatshop. Perhaps, the perspective is grounded in characters who do not have many good options in life. I kept asking myself, is this a dystopia? I’m not sure it is. ![]() The novel mixes science fiction with mystery as a killer is on the loose in this depressing future. ![]() In Madeline Ashby’s Company Town, almost the entire story takes place on a self-contained oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland. ![]()
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