Things We Didn't See Coming
Richly imagined and darkly comic, Things We Didn't See Coming follows a man over three decades as he tries to survive in an increasingly savage future that is at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. Here, coming-of-age is complicated not only by family troubles and mercurial love...
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Richly imagined and darkly comic, Things We Didn't See Coming follows a man over three decades as he tries to survive in an increasingly savage future that is at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. Here, coming-of-age is complicated not only by family troubles and mercurial love affairs, but treacherous weather, unstable governments, pandemic, and technology run amuck.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307473608 (0307473600)
Publish date: February 8th 2011
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 208
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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