A totalitarian world (2020s) where all humans are infertile and there are incentives for the infirm to commit suicide. Dissidents on the run, chases and hardship etc, but not as clichéd as that sounds. Gripping, chilling and (mostly) believable characters. The "science" is never really explained, so...
In the first few pages of the book, you are introduced with an extremely interesting premise: for unknown reasons, in the not too distant future, people on earth completely lose the ability to reproduce. It's a bit hard to wrap your head around it, but just imagine that suddenly, every man and woman...
Interesting book. It's the story of a future dystopia where humans have been infertile for twenty-five years. I was a bit irritated that the examples of how people go crazy were all females, and the clear implication that without the potential of reproduction, nobody wants to have sex. On the oth...
I read this book because I heard about the movie adaptation. I started the book before actually seeing the movie, but then put it aside for a while. During that time, I happened to catch the movie. I have to say that the book was far better than the movie. The movie was really depressing, and while ...
A fine example of hand-waving that I'll accept. No more babies are being born. Huh. Who knows why? Well, that's the sort of question that can take a long time to notice (presumably nine months as the birth rate tapered and no new pregnancies developed), and an even longer time to understand. Th...
Not a bad book, but IMHO the movie is much better. P.D. James has a nice style, but it doesn't begin to compare with the film's stunning cinematography.
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