The snow started falling on the sixth of September, soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths, or like static interference on your TV screen - whichever metaphor, nature or technology, you find the more evocative.....And at the beginning the people were happy.But the snow doesn't stop. It falls and falls and falls. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. Six billion people have died. Perhaps 150,000 survive.
'The Snow' is the latest offering from British sci-fi novelist Adam Roberts, and deals in part with themes of global apocalypse and human survival in in the face of catastrophic climatic change, and need to re-create social and political structures in the new era.
Curiously enough, Adams decides to choose as his main protagonist, Tira, a woman of south Asian Indian background (a profile also shared by Ursula Le Guin's main character in 'The Telling').
Adams succeeds in keeping the suspense going as to the origin of the snow and nature of what lies beneath the white frozen deserts. The book has shortcomings and is no classic, but is definitely an interesting book to read as those snowflakes settle gently outside on your window pane. :)
7.5/10.
4 comments:
Seems like an interesting read (I like reading sci-fi stuff, I loved Atwood's Oryx and Crake).
I am still reading "See no evil", haven't really found time to read of late...
Jas,
Oryx and Crake is a great read. After reading that followed by 'Fast Food Nation', I didn't touch meat for about 2 months afterwards....such is the power of literature... :)
I must read that book and see what affect it has on me! :)
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