The Canadian Miracle

A Tor.com original

by Cory Doctorow

eBook, 23 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2023 by Tor Books.

(3 reviews)

A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery workers' efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi. This story is set in the same future as Cory Doctorow's novel The Lost Cause.

1 edition

Soh Kam Yung reviewed The Canadian Miracle by Cory Doctorow

When trying to help your neighbour only gets you into more trouble

3 stars

A Canadian goes to the US (Mississippi) to help with recovery efforts. But she has to be very careful who she helps and how she helps, for the US state is in the grip of an election between progressives and extreme conservatives who will take any advantage of 'outsiders' coming to help as a pretext for baying that 'socialists' are coming to 'invade' and 'take away' their freedoms.

A moment of inattention is all that is needed for the bad news to spread, but perhaps the repercussions may not have the intended effect.

Rainer reviewed The Canadian Miracle by Cory Doctorow

Insightful

5 stars

Content warning Mild spoilers

As a person who spent the first 26 years of my life in the US and is now a Canadian citizen that volunteers as a first aid provider, this one in particular hit home and gave me a small shot of hope.

I'm not sure if the author is aware of exactly how on-the-nose he is with the plot point that international medical aid doesn't go to the US, but their legal system is already set up in such a way that international first aid volunteering organizations such as St John Ambulance don't operate there because of legal liabilities.

Bodo

rated it

Apr 23