Dark Is the Sun

Dark is the Sun is set so far in the future the universe is starting to collapse in on itself. There is only a rudimentary human civilization left, a handful of hunter/gatherer tribes who are scattered across the land. Other animals have either evolved or been helped to sentience, such as dolphins,......more

I picked this up from the tables of second-hand books underneath the bridge outside the National Theatre on the South Bank - I'd been queuing for theatre tickets, and had blasted through the final chapters of the Wooding book, so thought I'd pick something up to keep me entertained for a bit longer.......more

The time: Fifteen billion years in the future. The place: An earth on its last legs (in a universe on its last legs), inhabited primarily by primitives and weird creatures, littered with the ruins of countless lost civilizations. Deyv, a tribesman, sets out, with his dog, Jum, and his cat, Aejip (bot......more