Greybeard

A quote from The Twinkling of an Eye, Brian Aldiss' autobiography: P D James, ordinarily a bestselling middle-class thriller writer, setThe Children of Menin the future. The novel was published in 1992. I began to worry about her novel when readers wrote to me, pointing out many similarities betwee......more

I read the book "The Children of Men" by P.D. James (1920-2014) and many have thought that that book was a rip-off of the earlier "Greybeard" by Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) and having now read "Greybeard" I would agree. As I have read a lot of Aldiss but not "Greybeard," I thought I'd read it especiall......more

The time is the early twenty-first century, and humankind is dying, the entire race rendered sterile by an atomic 'accident' in 1981. Greybeard, barely yet sixty, is one of the youngest men alive. The story opens in the village of Sparcot on the Thames, where Big Jim Mole governs a ramshackle commun......more

-Producto de su tiempo pero con estilo poco común entonces y ahora.- Género. Ciencia-Ficción. Lo que nos cuenta. En el 2029, en el pueblo inglés de Sparcot, se han ido reuniendo diferentes grupos de supervivientes tras la guerra que cambió el mundo hace ya muchos años. Desde entonces, los recién naci......more

My first disappointing read in the SF Masterworks series. Through nuclear experimentation in the 1980s, all humans and most animals (except for a few little ones like stoats, which now maraud around in vicious herds devouring whole villages) are sterile, so by 2020 humanity has been ravaged by war a......more