![]() Residents of lowerdecks are forced to, for example, maintain Matilda’s energy source (known as “Baby”) despite the awful radiation ramifications or work what’s known as the “Field Decks”, essentially a reimagination of plantations. Life on Matilda is far from ideal, the ship is broken up into 26 decks, ranked from A-Z, with the upper echelons housing passengers with the most privilege and access (think white, wealthy, heterosexual, etc.) with the lower decks harboring passengers from less advantageous social positions. You see, in this universe, Earth experienced an unnamed calamity 300 years ago and a considerable portion of the population was loaded onto Matilda with the hopes that eventually they would be able to, presumably, colonize and eventually destroy but another planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts ultimately works to answer the question, “what if a previous institutional form of racism was transposed into the future in space?” The novel focuses on our protagonist, Aster, a brilliant scientist and healer living on the Q deck of Matilda, an enormous spaceship that carries just as much racial tension as it does Earthly passengers throughout the cosmos. ![]()
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