bluestocking rated The Uninhabitable Earth: 3 stars
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level …
I knew I would enjoy this, but I didn't realize quite how much. As soon as I heard it was about a trans archivist librarian I was sold, but the additions of it being a book about fandom and about how queer people discover themselves on the internet, with a little SF-specific flavor... this book is For Me, truly. I read some other people's reviews of it who didn't love it, and I get why--it's niche, and sometimes the gender politics of it aren't clean or nice. The writing felt luxurious to me, and I love a book that uses different kinds of prose formatting (scripts, chat logs, forum posts, etc.) to tell its story. I don't think it's a book that will work or even be pleasurable for most people, but god I really liked it
