A-Void by Babak Govan
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (146 pages)
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by AstilbeThose who adapt to environmental changes survive. What happens when the environment changes too fast for us to adapt?
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The end of the world might be just around the corner.
Billy had a lot of compassion for animals. It always makes me a little nervous to see pets introduced in the post-apocalyptic genre because of how often people in those universes mistreat them. As soon as I realized that Billy was going to do everything he could to take good care of any animal who crossed his path, I liked him. There is definitely something to be said for characters who remember who treat other creatures kindly even when their own survival is at stake.
The plot was hard to follow for a few reasons. It jumped around between Billy’s past and present so often that I had trouble keeping track of what happened to him and when they occurred. In the beginning, I even wondered if the narrator was describing the events of two completely different timelines with these jumps. That didn’t appear to be the case once I got further into the storyline, but there were also multiple instances when the characters stopped what they were doing and went off onto conversational tangents about issues or events that were only very loosely tied to what they’d been doing. While I enjoyed seeing all of the ways in which this futuristic world had evolved from the trends of the present day, it was quite confusing for me as a reader to be pulled in so many directions at the same time.
This book included so many memories of the happy life the main character lead with his wife and daughter before people began dying from the deadly disease that everyone was so worried about. Those scenes were a nice reprieve from all of the uncertainty and misery of life after the epidemic began. They also showed me aspects of Billy’s personality that I never would have otherwise seen. It was nice to see so many different sides of his personality like that.
A-Void should be read by anyone who likes stories that require some work to figure out.
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