For much of human history, human beings have waged war against each other. In the new novel by Marko Kloos, that tendency to wage war remains as strong as ever more than a thousand years into the future. Aftershocks is an adventure story as well as a portrait of a technologically-advanced civilization struggling to maintain the peace after a devastating war. Kloos spoke with NHPR’s Peter Biello. Read Marko Kloos's Top Five Reading Recommendations: 1. The Book of M by Peng Shepherd. "A haunting post-apocalyptic novel after the outbreak of a strange disease where people’s shadows disappear…and with them their memories." 2. Rosewater by Tade Thompson. "Highly original and inventive science fiction set in Nigeria: a strange alien dome appears outside of a city, and it may be the harbinger of a slow invasion of Earth." 3. The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts. "A hard SF novella about how to stage a mutiny when your job involves time dilation and relativity, and you are only awake one
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