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Post by edwin on Mar 5, 2010 8:41:03 GMT
Stark and miserable but a good read, that is Christopher Priest's Fugue for a Darkening Island. Massive immigration leads to social breakdown and civil war. No goodies, in this but our sad hero does the best he can and a final tragedy stimulates terror and hatred and his answer is a rifle.
Edwin
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Post by tastyger on Mar 31, 2010 0:05:58 GMT
Have this story in the omnibus edition with "Inverted World". Never really appealed to me, in fact made me feel queasy...then again getting a reaction - any reaction is what "art" is about.
Much preferred Priests "Inverted World", pure sci fi with a lot of interesting probabilities in the story.
Fugue has the same sort of premises as the American novels by Tucker "Year of the Quiet Sun" and McCauley's "A Secret History of Time to Come" and of course Edmund Cooper's " The Last Continent" ie war between the black and white races...
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