People of the Ruins - Brossura

Shanks, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1935869582 ISBN 13: 9781935869580

Casa editrice: Hilobooks, 2012

Riassunto

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 dont particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own eras 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.

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Book by Edward Shanks

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hilobooks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1935869582
• ISBN 13: 9781935869580
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile