A world in which any human contact risks death is a striking image of social atomisation, but it soon becomes preposterous
Can you imagine a world in which humans are allergic to each other? Not just in the current sense (getting furiously annoyed on social media, say) but physically being unable to come into any kind of contact with another person because to do so might kill you?
It’s actually a tough ask. Luke Brown has had a valiant effort at doing the work for us – but as his novel Skin demonstrates, doing anything at all under such circumstances other than staying at home or dying immediately, becomes highly convoluted.
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