Author: Chen QiufanTranslated by Ken Liu
New York: Tor 2019.; 352 pages
Off the coast of China lies Silicon Isle, a capital for electronic waste recycling, and home to the lowest caste, ‘waste people’, clans of Waste Workers whose lives revolve around sorting recycling and keeping their employers wealthy. ‘Waste Tide’ follows the stories of four people linked to Silicon Isle: Mimi, a “waste girl” of the lowest caste; Luo Jincheng, a head of one of the three clans facing harsher restrictions from an overbearing government; Scott Brandle and Chen Kaizong, an American from a Recycling company looking to modernise the Island’s recycling processes and make his company a fortune, and his Chinese-American interpreter who is searching for his heritage.
An intricate, thoughtful piece about the collapse to an environmental dystopia.
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