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Summary: Not Good enough.
Review: Very disappointing. Written in a marvellous way but with no content and too much description. This could have been OKish short story but it dragged as a novel. PD James clearly has no idea about sci-fi writing.
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Summary: Welcome to Britain: 2021.
Review: Welcome to Britain: 2021. Crime writer James' foray into the science fiction genre is as chilling a vision of the near future as Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale or Orwell's 1984. Although it ultimately descends into a fairly routine adventure story with religious overtones, the initial depiction of an infertile world where no child has been born for a quarter of a century is powerful enough to sustain any reader's attention. Although a decade old, The Children of Men is still frighteningly plausible. The Year of Omega (when Earth's last child was born) may have been 1995, but if the reader projects the novel's dateline a decade forward, the story loses none of its potency. Admittedly, James occasionally lets herself down - surprisingly she falls into the common sci-fi trap of giving unconvincing names to her protagonists; are Theodore Faron and Xan Lyppiatt really such likely names for two Britons supposedly born in the early nineteen seventies? Nevertheless, James' Britain, where mass euthanasia for the old is both commonplace and state-sponsored and where the Isle of Man has been transformed into a hellish penal colony is convincingly detailed. A good, if sometimes harrowing, read.
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Summary: Well, the first page was good...
Review: Yes, the first page was good. It was crisp with a fresh idea. In fact, I remember the physical page being quite light when I turned it, though at the time I didn't realize how unique this experience would be. The rest of the pages were weighed down in the armor of needless, roll-your-eyes descriptions of minute articles to the left or to the right or above or below (this is a simulation) of the actual plot. Oh yes, the plot. I found myself scratching my head more than once thinking "Now, would ANYONE ever do that?" I found the characters cold and unbelievable. I found the constant departures from the original idea irritating. I was very disappointed with this book (I can't believe I got through it).But the first page was good.
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