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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Robert Phillips’s 2100, James Lawson is a Canberra businessman who awakens after sixty-five years in cryosleep as medical micros treat the brain tumor that sent him there. His fortune is largely gone, and Australia has become a communal society that relies on medical micros and emotional regulators. James built Climate Changers, the energy-efficiency company that made him wealthy, so he expects his instincts to secure a place in this century. Historian Ron Bushell welcomes him into Willow Community, where James begins learning how environmental disaster and financial collapse remade the country. Ron’s colleague Imogen Smith has her own interest in his arrival, while the religious influence of the Earth goddess Gaia surrounds his new life. As James enters this society, he must learn why he was revived and whether this cooperative future has room for him.
Robert Phillips’s 2100 follows James into a future remade by climate damage, and, incredibly, every single bit of speculative science has a practical role. The technology is extensive and is part of daily life, which I appreciate. I loved Willow Community as the cooperative home where Ron Bushell helps James adjust. Its garage gives James a place in the society he initially mistrusts, making the setting part of his adaptation. James is a fantastic main character and, in a testament to Phillips’s skill as a writer, his commercial instincts are intact. His plan to turn a Black Friday ceremonial globe into a heat-sensitive fitball proves that beautifully. Phillips also writes ancillary characters as complete people. Ron’s wife Lena is an environmental scientist who uses programmed bees to maintain Willow’s food supply. This is intelligent and imaginative fiction at its best. Very highly recommended.
