"No one is in control."
Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind is a challenging novel, but one willing to innovate the disaster genre by presenting its central apocalyptic event as a complete breakdown of our psychological dependence on technology and the internet, and the resulting collapse of society. Because the conveniences of technology have become deeply ingrained into our routines, it's now impossible to imagine a world without it, and at the same time, the devices meant to make communication…
