It sounds messy as fuck, but Robson manages to make it all hang together. And she is part of a team, if not its leader, which submits a proposal for an environmental impact study which involves time travel back to Sumeria. She also has eight prosthetic legs, like an octopus. The protagonist of this story is one of them. There are people who work on fixing the damage caused by the climate crash, in an effort to create a world that can be repopulated to former levels. Anyway, Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach is set on a post-climate crash Earth, in which a much-reduced population live in small high-tech communities. In fact, five of the six novellas on this year’s shortlist were published by Tor.com. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach was published by Tor.com. I don’t think I’ve read anything by Robson previously, but her name sounded vaguely familiar– Ah, she won a Nebula for Best Novelette last year, and is another of the Clarkesworld/Tor.com stable, members of which have appeared on many shortlists in the last couple of years.
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