Weekend preview: Supply chain disruptions and the fragility of society in science fiction

Are you following business news?  I don't mean the stock market.  (Today).  Supply chains.  They are facing serious disruption.  This is a big deal.  This weekend, I'll write about John Scalzi's "Interdependency" trilogy.  Scalzi is a really good writer, and even his lesser books are a lot of fun.  My default recommendation right now might be Lock-In, which is about the world after a pandemic.  I'll probably do a post about that in the not-too-distant future, and I have assigned that book to my students.  For this weekend, though, I have some things to say about his current trilogy.  It is about an interstellar empire connected by "The Flow," which is like a hyperspace river system, or... kind of.  It's weird.  Anyway, what happens when The Flow starts to collapse?  If every system within The Interdependency is... interdependent, and those supply chains break down, badness ensues.

Weekend comments forthcoming.  Book 3 is due to be released next month.