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Newitz makes a clear effort to be inclusive, and the book features some prominent characters of color, as well as a trans woman whose cis female partner takes up the point of view narration for a few chapters. The book’s plot moves across time and through different characters’ points of view. It’s a conceit redolent of contemporary Reddit wars, and today’s atmosphere of “alternative truth” and feminist excavation of previous buried history. The two groups engaged in “edit wars” as each tries to twist the timeline to its benefit. In its time-traveling premise, a feminist group known as Daughters of Harriet battle an unnamed ersatz-incel cabal aimed at a male supremacist future. The Future of Another Timeline, though, is–ironically–very much an artifact of its age. Both feature alternate realities that center on women’s reproductive freedom. ‘The Future of Another Timeline’ by Annalee NewitzĪnnalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline is feminist sci-fi novel that will probably see a great many comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale.
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