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Ruth at the End of the Earth
If you thought that what Paul Muad’Dib needed was a provident Mormon family’s food storage, have I got a thrilling adventure tale for you. A cold-eyed and terrifying vision of a future southwest, Ruth at the End of the Earth is Dune on a human scale, Mad Max with Mormons in the red rock country. Stripped of all pretense and civilization, bound and driven by their own ancestors, a man and a woman fight the world and each other to survive the burning desert at the
end of time.
—DJ Butler — author of Witchy Eye and Abbott in Darkness
Bennion’s book is an accessible and inspiring reflection on the small–and broad-scale implications of technology. We as readers are challenged in this gripping climate narrative to see how others weigh the trade-offs that have already been made and will yet be made as we work to sustain ourselves and our neighbors on this finite world. The story of Ruth provides a way of thinking about our future that is both cautionary and personal.
—Richard Gill — global change ecologist
So thoroughly has Bennion imagined this terrifying future that I found myself caught up in its claustrophobic world. I felt that I shouldn’t go outside in the sunlight. I found the romance of a moonlit night supplanted by the need to hunt food in the dark. I felt the full force of Ruth’s terror at being in this version of Salt Lake City. I felt the pain of the journey that Ruth must undertake to save her family. And I shared her ambivalence at the end, about what she must decide to do. All this
leaves me terrified at what we have done to our Earth.
—Dennis Clark — poet and general nuisance
end of time.
—DJ Butler — author of Witchy Eye and Abbott in Darkness
Bennion’s book is an accessible and inspiring reflection on the small–and broad-scale implications of technology. We as readers are challenged in this gripping climate narrative to see how others weigh the trade-offs that have already been made and will yet be made as we work to sustain ourselves and our neighbors on this finite world. The story of Ruth provides a way of thinking about our future that is both cautionary and personal.
—Richard Gill — global change ecologist
So thoroughly has Bennion imagined this terrifying future that I found myself caught up in its claustrophobic world. I felt that I shouldn’t go outside in the sunlight. I found the romance of a moonlit night supplanted by the need to hunt food in the dark. I felt the full force of Ruth’s terror at being in this version of Salt Lake City. I felt the pain of the journey that Ruth must undertake to save her family. And I shared her ambivalence at the end, about what she must decide to do. All this
leaves me terrified at what we have done to our Earth.
—Dennis Clark — poet and general nuisance
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452 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 29, 2023
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December 31, 2023
Fascinating!
Very fascinating and compelling story, it's very relevant to the world and society we live in. And I love how real the characters are, and that there are no perfect solutions.
Very fascinating and compelling story, it's very relevant to the world and society we live in. And I love how real the characters are, and that there are no perfect solutions.
August 1, 2024
Ruth At The End Of The Earth will stick with me for a long time. It's an work set in post-climate-apolocalypse Utah, the first work of Mormon-flavored cli-fi I've read. The eponymous character that Bennion creates here is fascinating and I can't stop thinking about both. Highly recommend.
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