Such An Old-Fashioned Word
The Unraveling
By Benjamin Rosenbaum
11 Mar, 2025
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Benjamin Rosenbaum’s 2021 The Unraveling is a stand-alone science fiction novel.
A mere 550,000 years from now, humans and their creations have spread out into the galaxy, into an oblate spheroid a thousand light-years across1.
This book is about one such world, one that is so utterly indifferent to all worlds save their own that in the tens of millennia they’ve occupied their planet, they’ve never bothered to name the world. Why bother, when it is the only planet that matters?
They are confident that their society is the best of all possible societies. One citizen of this planet, a certain Fift, isn’t so sure that this is true.