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I'm reading The Boy On The Bridge, which is the written-afterwards prequel-to the very good The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey. It's not as good as the first one, because the first one pretty well spoilers the whole of the prequel, but it's not bad. However.
It's set in a post-apocalyptic UK.
It's ten years since the effective end of civilisation. No apparent climate change to affect weather patterns.
The characters are in the centre of Luton; twelve months previously, the vegetation in an overgrown town-square-type area was razed to the ground and a bright orange container placed on it. It is now completely hidden by an impenetrable thicket of brambles. (I paraphrase, having read that bit yesterday.)
Later, in Wales, a character muses that the Great Wall Of China used to be visible from space, and that later on "Cities and towns would have been big grey areas [...] Only now they're not [...] The forests have gone in and taken over again. [...] London would just be more jungle."
Ten years. Not terribly likely. (Also, now I think of it, contradicting the Big Thing at the end of the first book, which is set later in time, features no jungle in London, and involves a Thing Likely To Be Visible From Space.)
Also, ten years: why have all the satellites vanished? ("Most of the satellites fell out of the sky long ago.") There was no Epic War where they got shot down. Why don't they have at least some GPS?
Hmph. I do recommend the first book, but don't dive into the second thinking it's a sequel.
Merry Christmas, though!
It's set in a post-apocalyptic UK.
It's ten years since the effective end of civilisation. No apparent climate change to affect weather patterns.
The characters are in the centre of Luton; twelve months previously, the vegetation in an overgrown town-square-type area was razed to the ground and a bright orange container placed on it. It is now completely hidden by an impenetrable thicket of brambles. (I paraphrase, having read that bit yesterday.)
Later, in Wales, a character muses that the Great Wall Of China used to be visible from space, and that later on "Cities and towns would have been big grey areas [...] Only now they're not [...] The forests have gone in and taken over again. [...] London would just be more jungle."
Ten years. Not terribly likely. (Also, now I think of it, contradicting the Big Thing at the end of the first book, which is set later in time, features no jungle in London, and involves a Thing Likely To Be Visible From Space.)
Also, ten years: why have all the satellites vanished? ("Most of the satellites fell out of the sky long ago.") There was no Epic War where they got shot down. Why don't they have at least some GPS?
Hmph. I do recommend the first book, but don't dive into the second thinking it's a sequel.
Merry Christmas, though!