Polygon recently spoke to the author about the ways How High We Go in the Dark relates to the celebrated recent series Station 11, how he’s dealing with readers’ pandemic fatigue, and what links his characters across time and space. And yet these are also down-to-earth stories about how people navigate their jobs and relationships, chase their crushes and worry about their kids, as they head into an unpredictable future. These stories involve spaceships and robot dogs, death hotels and a euthanasia amusement park for sick children. Each story follows different characters further into the future, as the plague spreads and humanity evolves. The story begins in a near-present, where an Arctic expedition accidentally releases a virus that makes people’s bodies mutate and shift form. Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel How High We Go in the Dark is the winter’s most ambitious science fiction book: a sequence of interlocked stories that’s drawn comparisons to sagas like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land.
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