About This Novel
The story is set in the near future, where environmental pollution and other disasters have transformed cities beyond recognition. PKD once coined a word "kipi", which was used by the author in this article and gave it a broader meaning. The entire society is a garbage society. The protagonist Peter is a teenager who specializes in picking up garbage and selling it to recyclers. Half of his limbs are prosthetic bodies. He lives with his mother and brother. His brother Charlie is the leader of the "Dead Bones", an anti-Kippi organization. One day, Charlie attacked the goddess "Alba" he had always admired. They tore Alba into pieces. From then on, Peter was obsessed with piecing "Alba" together. The original novel "Livido" is written in Italian. According to the author, the original title means "pale, blue-gray", and "The Successor" is its English title. There is an impressive passage in the article that may explain the idea of the article: "They are not of the same species as us. Like the sarcophagi and totems of the past, those ancient vessels that carried souls into the afterlife, successors carry our souls into the future. I see in them a similar attempt to inscribe ourselves in the continuity of eternity. They are a symbol of our desire for eternity."
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