The People of the Ruins - Couverture souple

Shanks, Edward; Hodgkinson, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935869582 ISBN 13 : 9781935869580

Editeur : Red Lemonade, 2013

Synopsis

Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later -- in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful. That is, until northern English and Welsh tribes threaten London -- at which point he sets about reinventing weapons of mass destruction. Shanks's post-apocalyptic novel, a pessimistic satire on Wellsian techno-utopian novels, was first published in 1920.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Shanks' novel of England after the triumph of Communism. The bleak, post-industrial landscape becomes a dark world of feuding tribes set against the backdrop of a shattered St. Paul's Cathedral. First published 1920. This book's theme and subject matter may well have hurt the author's standing as a war-poet within the academy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Red Lemonade
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935869582
• ISBN 13: 9781935869580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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