Geordie Williamson

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The Bookshelf · Elizabeth Strout returns, Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear and more new fiction · 8 May 2026 podcast

Uh the Babylon is, yeah, like it's like Blade Runner in that the future and the past are so unevenly distributed.

So although we're half a millennium into the future, nonetheless it's run by sale.

There are some technologies available, but they have been bought at great cost.

They've got just enough tech to keep the old girl running.

but not enough to actually kind of make a real living for themselves.

So Jessico has inherited the boat from her father, who became addicted to a drug of choice for this brave new world called Hum, which is basically a way out from what is an intolerable drowned world post climate change and civil breakdown.

So uh listeners may have been here before.

This is quite well trodden ground now.

I know for years we said there wasn't much writing about climate change, but this is this is Clifi, I think, that's already kind of presumed certain tropes and integrated them into the story.

Cha is really fascinating, and she is, in fact, the link that joins together these four generations of women over this half a millennium um period of time.

Because Chea, who we meet at the beginning of the sort of 26th century strand, um, has actually been invented or created half a millennium before by

A woman named Tamar Portman, who's a bioengineering professor, and she's been given the task of creating these robots who are going to go out into the world, and they're sort of delicate ecological sensing systems.

And what they're going to do is they are going to provide the kind of real-world data that allows the world to be our world, this world, to be healed.

What she doesn't really

Is that the whole robot project has been bought up by Q, the the billionaire, the tech bro.

Who, surprise, surprise, instead takes them all out of commission and puts them as kind of robot helpers on space arcs that he sells places at excruciating costs to humans who may wish to leave Earth.

Earth and go to restart things on another planet.

Usually I can wing it, guys, but I've I've got a piece of paper here.

I've got a cheat sheet because it it it's a beautiful puzzle box of a novel and it does swap between time frames and locales with great swiftness.

So you've got to keep a few things in your head, but one of the great satisfactions is as you go through, you go like, oh, now that name means something, and it's exquisite, really, the way that the whole thing is drawn together at

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