In her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood describes a future after humanity had been almost entirely wiped out by a plague. Jimmy, aka Snowman, lives...
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The looming spectre of an economic/energy crash, with the removal of the machine world that now slaves for humanity, is turned into an engaging and edifying tale of a small community learning to do for themselves even as they do without the dimly recalled bulging shelves of extinct big-box stores. Kunstler depicts the slow quiet place of life without motor vehicles, the new prominence of nature's details in people's attention, the evolving relationships as people barter and come to each other's aid. The plot creates enough suspense and original characters to keep the reader turning pages steadily.
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World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
tkozlo, April 22, 2008
The looming spectre of an economic/energy crash, with the removal of the machine world that now slaves for humanity, is turned into an engaging and edifying tale of a small community learning to do for themselves even as they do without the dimly recalled bulging shelves of extinct big-box stores. Kunstler depicts the slow quiet place of life without motor vehicles, the new prominence of nature's details in people's attention, the evolving relationships as people barter and come to each other's aid. The plot creates enough suspense and original characters to keep the reader turning pages steadily.(5 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)