1000xResist review: pushing back on storytelling norms

Imagine a world where history is only told through the lens of one person. Now imagine that one person is a rather surly teenage girl. As you might expect, not everything she’s written is truthful. Some stories shine her in a better light, and she doesn’t see the shadow other stories cast over her, yet everything is told from her perspective. This is the story of 1000xResist. The story starts out like many sci-fi thrillers. A virus sweeps the Earth. Only one person is immune. Scientists carry out experiments on her in an attempt to save humanity. They fail. Ultimately, a new society emerges that is made entirely of the clones of our original surly teenager. She becomes a god, and this new society studies her life and teachings in order to form their morality. This is the setting for 1000xResist, but it isn’t what it’s really about. It’s about the relationship between the different clones; how they differ despite being built from the same DNA and being brought up in the same environment. It’s about how societ