Much of Wyndham's writing is more about how we should respond to apocalypse - how we will go on - than mere SFnal musing about how it might occur. This isn't just a superficial matter of setting. (There are nods to other authors too: a boat called the Maggie Atwood, mention of JK Rowling fighting the good fight over in Scotland). And indeed Hill nods to this - the camp that our hero, Harper, flees to and spends much of the book in, is Camp Wyndham. We are, then, in John Wyndham country, seeing things begin to fall apart as in The Kraken Wakes or The Day of The Triffids. Degrading gracefully, but degrading all the same. it's not post-apocalyptic because the terrible thing, the disease, the 'scale, is still happening and civilization is degrading. In The Fireman, Hill describes an apocalypse. I suspect there are very few folk like that). (Unless they're so impressed with my judgement that they just, you know, read everything I recommend. What can you say other than wonderful, awesome, perfect in every way?īut that doesn't get blogpost written and - rightly - won't get people to pick up the book and read it, which they should. If a review is dissecting, examining and appraising a book, then finding one that is perfect, wonderful, awesome in every way is rather tricky. Sometimes it's hardest to review the books you liked most. Source: e-copy via NetGalley (and I have bought a copy as well).
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