![]() ![]() ![]() The prospect of atomic bombs being dropped to reduce the population may also have seemed more imminent in 1956 than it does now. You could argue it is too convenient that the hero has a friend in the Ministry of the Environment with access to classified information, as well as a family farm to escape to in Cumbria. John Custance and his family flee London, though the journey becomes increasingly treacherous due to the rapid breakdown of civil and moral law. A virus that attacks all species of grass, including wheat and rice, has caused mass starvation in China and is heading this way. It has now been reissued as a modern classic, and it's hard to understand why it has been ignored for so long. J ohn Christopher's mid-1950s vision of worldwide eco-disaster was recently named among the top 10 out-of-print books in Britain. ![]()
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