I've finished: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
A Half-Built Garden is the most Fediversial novel I've read.
The anarchists have won. The corporations and nation states have been sidelined. Most of the world is under the control of egalitarian communities that use an alternative network to achieve consensus and work to rehabilitate the climate change ravaged earth.
This is very much a slice of life novel in the vain of Becky Chambers, centered around a communal lgbtqia+ household. But as opposed to most slice of life novels there is a major crisis, and it falls upon this community to save the day.
Aliens have made first contact and they insist that the only way for technological species to survive is to leave their biospheres behind and build Dyson Swarms.
As their way of life comes under threat from without and within, Will the dandelion network survive? Will the power of decisions through discussion and consensus overcome manipulation and coercion.
A special aspect of the aliens is the importance they place on the place of children in society.
PS:
I didn't expect this novel to be so Jewish, what a delight.
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