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Summary: Nature's End should initiate a fresh start
Review: My father recommended this book to me. I read it and now I fear the very meaning of it. If you want to be terrified everytime droughts occur or wide-spread fires erupt, read Nature's End. I would like to believe the Earth can tollerate those ungratful inhabitants. Everything has a threshold. This book is a frightening depiction of what could await if Earth's is crossed.
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Summary: Life on a dying planet.
Review: Strieber and Kunetka reuse their fictional historical study frame from War Day and the Journey Onward in this novel of ecological disaster. Far more grim and downbeat with its subplot of mass suicide and irreversible ecological damage, Nature's End is the perfect thematic sequel to War Day and a perfect warning to adequately protect the enviroment that ensures our continued survival. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Life on a dying planet.
Review: Strieber and Kunetka reuse their fictional historical study frame from War Day and the Journey Onward in this novel of ecological disaster. Far more grim and downbeat with its subplot of mass suicide and irreversible ecological damage, Nature's End is the perfect thematic sequel to War Day and a perfect warning to adequately protect the enviroment that ensures our continued survival. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Cliff Hanging
Review: This book is great if you are a person that is interested in the over seeing of the Earth,from about 30 years or less from this date you would love this book.
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Summary: A horrifying vision of the future.
Review: 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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Summary: A horrifying vision of the future.
Review: 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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Summary: Scary!!!
Review: This is where the world is going. I don't need to tell you of the ecological ramifications, but if we don't slow down this is where we'll end up. A book that will give you nightmares for many years to come after reading
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Summary: Allot like SOYLENT GREEN
Review: This story is like SOYLENT GREEN in many ways. A remake of Soylent green is not really appropriate, so what needs to be done is to show SOYLENT GREEN in theatres again and make NATURES END into a movie, so people can be hopefully shocked into action.
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Summary: Allot like SOYLENT GREEN
Review: This story is like SOYLENT GREEN in many ways. A remake of Soylent green is not really appropriate, so what needs to be done is to show SOYLENT GREEN in theatres again and make NATURES END into a movie, so people can be hopefully shocked into action.
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Summary: Incredible foresight
Review: While I do not agree with the authors' view of ecological meltdown, I was enthralled by the book. Good science fiction should accomplish at least the following: It should build on solid scientific facts to create believable scenarios and support items. Much of the computer related parts of the book successfully pictured a future world where the computer played a major role in the lives of many. Delta Doctor and Stratagen are examples of programs that have their counterparts on the Internet today, (though not as interactive and not currently independent of human intervention). We are witness to the almost daily assault on our own "Falon", Clinton and the very successful Gupta Singh tactics employed in his defense. And, speaking of old Gupta, have you considered Kavorkian, our very real Doctor Death? Seems to me to be a very good candidate for the part of Gupta Singh. And what about the children? Have you been paying attention to how often politicians on the left invoke our children as a reason for everything they want to do? Attacks on cigarette manufacturers, or support for this program or that program, all for the sake of our children. An endless parade of intrusive federal incursions into our lives. And we should feel good about it because "it's for the children". I thought the midwest flood was nearly accurately predicted, though not the cause. While I believe we should be good stewards of our fair planet, I believe she is quite capable of taking care of herself. Mt. Pinatuba ejected unimaginable amounts of PCB's and other contaminates into our ecosphere and the old lady didn't miss a beat. Somehow I just can't imagine that we could srpay enough hair spray and deoderant to out-do those massive eruptions. This was my second reading of the book, (the first was several years ago). I am now convinced that there was a very different message somewhat hidden under the main theme of this book. It is a message that tells us that there is more to fear from what man can do to man than what man might do to nature. Read it again, if you will. This time look for the truth. It's there, hidden with the children in Magic.
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