![]() ![]() The Kesh use technological inventions of civilization such as writing, steel, guns, electricity, trains, and a computer network (see below). There has been a great sea level rise since our time, flooding much of northern California, where the story takes place. The only signs of our civilization that have lasted into their time are indestructible artefacts such as styrofoam and a self-manufacturing, self-maintaining, solar-system-wide computer network. ![]() The book's setting is a time so post-apocalyptic that no cultural source can remember the apocalypse, though a few folk tales refer to our time. Pandora describes the book as a protest against contemporary civilization, which the Kesh call " the Sickness of Man". It is presented by Pandora, who seems to be an anthropologist or ethnographer from the readers' contemporary culture, or a culture very close to it. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed. It is in parts narrative, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. Always Coming Home is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. ![]()
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