‘Vesper’ Review: Exceptional Worldbuilding Makes This Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Tale Eerily Relatable [Karlovy Vary]

A new Dark Age has come to Earth after man-made viruses destroyed its ecosystems and killed most animals, including humans.

Of those who survived, the rich live in comfort and rule from walled-off citadels.

The poor work on remote farms trading the blood of children for patented bio-blocked seeds that must be repurchased every harvest.

While others known as pilgrims cover their bodies with thick, black cloaks and wordlessly drag rusty, scavenged metals to a tower reaching towards the sky.Continue reading ‘Vesper’ Review: Exceptional Worldbuilding Makes This Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Tale Eerily Relatable [Karlovy Vary] at The Playlist.

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