Welcome to Apocalypse Soon: Book 2!  Our climate fiction series continues with Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes. Reviewers have compared Wu's work to Murakami-- does this book justify that comparison? 

No, it does not.  

In fact this book is in contention for the Vagabonds prize for the worst book that we read this year.  In this episode we talk about why this fell well short of our expectations.    

This is the second book in our series on climate fiction.  We started this series with A Children‘s Bible by Lydia Millet and will also read Weather by Jenny Offill.

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