![]() Robots keep crops growing to feed everyone, and all is managed and overseen by a team of ‘Janitors’ who stay awake, one for each of the remaining cities where everyone now lives. The world can’t support those left, so a radical programme has been put in place–the majority will spend three quarters of the year asleep, waking every three months for one month of so-called normal life. Climate change has wreaked havoc on the world, in Britain large areas are flooded, uninhabitable. But the world inhabited by the subjects of this novel is now broken. Kings of a Dead World is set in the near future, a time in which the second half of the 20th century is still fresh in some minds and vintage TV programmes are still broadcast. ![]() It shows a strong Ballardian influence too, JG being a favourite of mine! I’m often slightly wary of direct author approaches in case I have to disappoint, but having fallen in love with the cover, I am relieved to tell you that this is a superb novel. Earlier this year, I was approached by Jamie to see if I’d like to read his Spec SF novel. ![]()
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