SOULar Powered Afrofuturism Reading Group discussion

This is a thread to share author interviews or thoughts on your reading of the book. Please be mindful that not everyone in the thread will be at the same place in the book as you.

Mini-review of Escaping Exodus from Chris Kluwe at Lightspeed (it's towards the end of the article (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/non...).

This was an interesting interview with Nicky Drayden: https://sightlinesmag.org/nicky-drayd...

The discussion is about 2 weeks away. How's your reading going?

Discussion is a week away. Guiding questions are:
What do you think of Seske as a protagonist?
What are the parallels between Seske and Adalla?
Whose team were you on in the love triangle?
What role does scarcity play in this novel?
Does Escaping Exodus have a villain? If so, who or what?

If you have a question you'd like to discuss that didn't make the list, feel free to comment, and I'll try to work it in.

Do you have a favorite memorable quote from this book so far? Some of mine are:
"It would be good for you to stop thinking of death as something permanent and final. What we take from the beast, we give back eventually. One or two would have caught up before the beat came. The others would have enriched the beast's blood, making the beat stronger for us all." - Adalla's mother
"Our world can be re-created, replicated, and refabricated just so, but our past is fragile, irreplaceable." - Seske
"Maybe they will see that looking at the world through a child's eyes is not a deficiency, but just another perspective." - Seske
"It's not that we can't… It's just that we love the little conveniences of life too much." - Adalla