The Intimate Dystopias of Kit Reed: 2 Novels 📚 SFF180 Retro

her novel at expectations published in 2000 was an early satire about the dangers of living the extremely online life as well as internet parasocial relationships where unhappy housewives discover an online community in which they can have virtual friends and families and even lovers and how the line between fantasy and reality inevitably and dangerously begins to blur

now enclave is not as well constructed a story as the baby merchant its emotional truths are perhaps far more convincing than a lot of its plot contrivances but its themes are powerfully on target

the baby merchant is a wrenching and powerful work of character-driven socially conscious speculative fiction it explores the depths of human self-absorption and deception and treats the commodification of human life with an unflinching eye to its disastrous consequences it's a work of rare courage

her 2004 novel thinner than thou is a blistering satire about how society's unhealthy obsession with body image especially fat phobia gives rise to an actual fanatical religious order where concentration camps enforce starvation diets