January and February 2023 Bookshelf
I read an awful lot of rubbish but these are the standouts from January and February The Wall by John Lanchester Dystopia novel set in the near future where the seas have risen catastrophically, there is huge migration as a result, and surprise surprise the UK has build a huge wall to keep out the sea and the 'Others'. National Service keeps The Wall guarded, with a penalty of being put to sea for any failure. A simple idea, brutally thinking through the implications, but as with all the best sci-fi, grounding it in the issues of today. Are the Others any different to us, and what would we do? Enjoyed it, but it came to a bit of a sudden stop for me. The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray Another dystopia novel, this time after the earth has stopped spinning in space. The details of how are sufficient to give a dubious credibility but aren’t really important. The ‘Stop’ means that half the world is in perpetual darkness, the other in perpetual day, wi...