Things We Didn't See Coming
Follows a man as he tries to survive - and to retain his humanity - in a world savaged by successive cataclysmic events. This book shows that even as the world is spinning out of control essential human impulses still hold sway - that we never entirely escape our parents, envy the success of...
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Follows a man as he tries to survive - and to retain his humanity - in a world savaged by successive cataclysmic events. This book shows that even as the world is spinning out of control essential human impulses still hold sway - that we never entirely escape our parents, envy the success of those around us and, chiefly, that we crave love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846553660 (1846553660)
Publisher: Harvill Press
Pages no: 199
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Speculative Fiction,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Australia
I don't have a particularly good relationship with post-apocalyptic fiction, tending to find it either too far-fetched or, if not far-fetched, too depressing to want to immerse myself in for very long. I was spoiled early by having to read Robert Swindells's relentlessly bleak postnuclear misery-fes...
Things We Didn’t See Coming is the story of one young boy, 9 years old on the eve of the millennium, and his subsequent journey through a world irrevocably changed by Y2K. As the world falls slowly apart and suffers through drought, flood, fire and disease, he teeters on the fence of petty crime an...
I found this really tedious after a while and gave it up halfway through. I don't really know what all the fuss is.
This is a first novel, but I would not have guessed that if I hadn't read the book jacket. The writing is polished with a nice flow.The book is really snapshots of the main character's life as the world goes to hell (and maybe rebuilds?). The first chapter takes place when the main character is 10 y...
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