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The Hillside
A Science Fiction Short Story by Jane Smiley
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Climate Fiction,
- Animal Protagonists
This book is for you if you're into...
- Post-human worlds ruled by animals debating humanity's fate
- Moral dilemmas where mercy risks the new order
- Fables with talking animals and high-stakes planetary politics
After bringing Earth to ruin, the age of humans is over. It is a blessing for some in this tender and tragic cautionary fable from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres.
Now the Congress of Animals is in control, unforgiving, and debating the fate of the planet's most reviled species. The popular ruling: exterminate humankind without exception. But a curious mare, coming of age, is making a case for a seemingly gentle person she longs to save—a wish for mercy that could once again unbalance the new and righteous nature of the world.
Jane Smiley's The Hillside is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today's most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.
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