Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
by M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi
I liked this a lot. Having trouble making concrete my thoughts on it.
The format worked for me really well (sci fi, a collection of oral histories). It was a little dry in places, tbh! But even that fits. I read 2-3 chapters at a time and never had trouble getting back into the mindset.
Going to be thinking for a long time about the immense sadness of violent deaths. Some characters are grieving specific people (a community leader, a sister); other times it's a background of violence (a hospital leveled by the army for no reason) but with enough specificity (a parent) to make the scale of the loss impactful. The description in "Liberating the Levant" of winning and the people who were killed in that battle has been living in the back of my head for months.
I love the conception of AI in the last chapter.