Michael Keefe

Oct 11, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Neesha Powell-Ingabire |Afabwaje Kurian |Nick Gardner |Michael Keefe

Reading Lists As the leaves fall, curl up with these books I’ve been reading from outside of Phoenix, where there have been over 120 days of 100 degree temperatures as summer comes to a close. With Hurricane Helene devastating the Southeast and war spreading in the Middle East, the uncertainty about our collective futures—whether it is from climate change, the loss of loved ones, or displacement from our homes and homelands—is so present in the fifteen books on this list. Yet, there is also...

Sep 13, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Michael Keefe

The primary story in Michael Keefe’s All Her Loved Ones, Encoded occurs over a single night. The setting is a bleak vision of California in 2057, sketched out by extrapolating negative trends in the environment, economy, and public health. The protagonist, Kiana Olsen, seeks to illegally upload her dying husband’s consciousness to a Matrix-like program called Level Up. As she faces one obstacle after another, the narrative intercuts with backstory on Kiana and generations of her family.