/lit/ - Literature

The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred - Greg Egan (2016)
This was unlike anything else by Egan that I've read. It's about politics and little else. The two primary issues are discrimination and refugees, though several other issues are are present to varying degrees. There are many indictments against the perceived failures of their government, which doesn't take much of a stretch to relate them to existing governments. There are also ethical dilemmas presented, though at this point the trolley problem doesn't mean much to me, but its inclusion seems to have affected others quite a bit. Personally, I think in this case it would have been better to destroy the metaphorical train and avoid the problem altogether, though that quite possibly present a far greater problem. The best option would have been for the train to never have been built, but that's far more difficult proposition.
Rating: 3.5/5, rounded down.