The Ancients by John LarisonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is quite an epic, but it didn't really wow me. It felt like one long fable almost. I see that many people are calling this science fiction and future looking, but it is the opposite, takes place in the very far past. The title says it all – the ancients.
These people are dealing with climate change, but don't understand it as such.
The story follows several characters, and some from peoples...they are enemies, likely only because they are other, different. We have a family, three siblings lost their parents. They do not know they were kidnapped, her mother survives. These three go in search of their auntie who a while before left to walk up and across the mountains.
There is also a noble, who has his own struggles, one being a lover of men in a world where it is unknown. He is a scholar, but only in his spare time. His father recently died and now he is in charge of the production of wool.
The noble lives in a grand city, while the family lives in a village, a small place. There are many adventures, of a sort that take place.
Throughout there is hope that conveyed. Your ancestors survived and so shall you. The author is telling us there has been climate change before, humans survived and we will again.
Wish I did enjoy it more. Maybe it’s a book to be reread and glean more out of it with a second reading.
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