No, it’s the most unbelievably hamfisted anti-abortion, utilitarian ethic screed I’ve ever seen, poorly disguised as your standard YA dystopian fic.
Unwinding is, in universe, the process of completely taking someone apart and using all their pieces as medical transplants for others, and parents can choose to have their kids unwound up until the age of 16 or something for any reason. It’s the trolley problem variation where the surgeon kills one person for their organs to save five that need transplants.
I didn’t particularly enjoy the book either (probably because I’m not a Young Adult), but the whole point of the novel is that unwinding is an absurdly evil “compromise” that’s worse than forced birth or abortion. I read it as a caution against liberal civility politics, more than anything.
No, it’s the most unbelievably hamfisted anti-abortion, utilitarian ethic screed I’ve ever seen, poorly disguised as your standard YA dystopian fic.
Unwinding is, in universe, the process of completely taking someone apart and using all their pieces as medical transplants for others, and parents can choose to have their kids unwound up until the age of 16 or something for any reason. It’s the trolley problem variation where the surgeon kills one person for their organs to save five that need transplants.
I didn’t particularly enjoy the book either (probably because I’m not a Young Adult), but the whole point of the novel is that unwinding is an absurdly evil “compromise” that’s worse than forced birth or abortion. I read it as a caution against liberal civility politics, more than anything.
Oh, oh geez.
thanks for the warning!