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Title: Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century by Whitley Strieber, James W. Kunetka ISBN: 0-446-34355-2 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A horryfying and plausible look at our possible future
Comment: If we continue to consume and destroy as we have in the 20th century, we may face the hell that Strieber and Kunetka describe in the 21st in Nature's End. The book's dramatic elements are exciting, and the story of fugitves on the run from a sort of mutated Ghandi/Hitler hybrid is fun and though-provoking, but it is the depictions of everyday life in the 2020s with the terrifying consequences of over 100 years of environmental degradation that both enthrall and alarm. This book should be made into a movie by Steven Spielberg and star Tom Hanks. Maybe the attention it would thus receive will serve as a warning call to the world that we may be entering a time of living (or more likely, dying) in a poisoned planet unless we do something about it. An amazing and shocking vision of what may await us all in a few decades, many of the predictions of events in this book (written in the 80s) have come to pass with alarming accuracy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Nature's End: A Soon to be Written True Story
Comment: In this book, Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka attempted to warn readers of how
Mankind's remorseless corrupting of nature would come back to haunt us. Not only
did he show how perhaps one day pollution and deforestation and political gridlock over
the environment would nealy nullify the planet, he also provided something not often seen
in this type of book: He provided suspense. Unlike WARDAY (The pair's previous novel)
There was a reason that the people traveled where and how they did. This book is a few years
old, but IT more than any Commercial, fact, or group scared me into worrying about the status
of Nature itself. Imagine a place where cities are so pollutted that smog is black and thicker
than any fog you have ever been in. Imagine a place where the MAPLE Tree has become extinct.
Imagine a place where once the greatest forest on the planet was, there is now a desert as
large as the Sahara. This impossible menagerie of horrors is what Whitley Streiber and
James Kunetka have concocted. Read it and realize that anything is possible.
Review by Martin J. Zmiejko
Rating: 5
Summary: A horrifying vision of the future.
Comment: This is one of those books that is quite literally unforgettable. It is set circa 2025. In this future, the world is horrendously overpopulated, and has been devastated by ecological havoc and neglect to the point where Earth's biosphere is in jeopardy of collapse. A new world politician, Gupta Singh, believes he has the answer: the "Draft." Under this proposal, which has been secretly adopted by the United States and other countries, on a certain day all human beings would be required to simultaneously take a drug. One third of the doses will be fatal, thereby reducing the world's population by a third in a single day, alleviating the world's population problems.
The authors do a wonderful job projecting current technology and ecological trends in a manner that projects a nightmarish future American and world society. The rich enjoy extended life spans, penthouse living, and the benefits of high technology including sentient laptop computers and refrigerators that talk. The rest of the world including most of America (which seems largely to be comprised of illegal aliens) lives in grinding poverty supported by a government dole. Freedom is largely a thing of the past, the Tax Police have the power to effect summary arrests, and society in general is teetering on collapse.
This novel is intended to be a cautionary novel warning us against neglect of the world's ecology, and it delivers this message successfully, and in my opinion, devastatingly. I am a conservative Republican, (a school of thought not always noted for its ecological conciousness) but nevertheless I admit that this novel heightened my concern for our preservation of the world's forests, oceans, and ecology. Although I doubt that the future will be as grim as the authors show in this novel, nothing in the novel struck me as impossible, and much of it was too plausible for comfort. This is a book that is worth reading because it will challenge the reader to think "outside the box" and examine his or her belief system.
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Title: Warday: And the Journey Onward by Whitley Strieber, James Kunetka ISBN: 0030707315 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1984 List Price(USD): $2.98 |
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Title: This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow ISBN: 0156002086 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Gift Upon the Shore : by M. K. Wren ISBN: 0595143415 Publisher: Backinprint.com Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Shiva Descending by Gregory Benford, William Rotsler ISBN: 0812516907 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart ISBN: 0449213013 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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