#systems #literature #literaryforms Depicts whole worlds down to their political, social, cultural, and technological systems. They have a multipoint focus and can be seen in such genres as SciFi and Fantasy world building. Generally, in systems novels the whole behind the scenes of the system is never revealed. Like other [[Western Literary Forms]] it focuses on white western male protagonist at its center. There is always a stark divide between the human system and the natural world. > '... Stories about people are one of the best technologies we have for understanding what it means to be a person. But what it means to be a person in an age of ecosystemic decline - of planetary extinction- is changing.' - Elvia Wilk [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]] The human is not self-contained, we rely on our ecosystems and other beings to survive. [[The Two Body Problem]] ## Sources: - [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]]