![]() ![]() ![]() In the UK, humanity lives on in small scattered, dying settlements where inbreeding is a serious issue, beliefs have regressed to a fundamentalist near-pagan level and science and technology are known only to a specialised few and then only within certain, narrow understandings. The Book of Koli, the first entry in the Rampant Trilogy, which will continue with The Trials of Koli (29 September 2020) and The Fall of Koli (early 2021), brings us a world busted back to a near-medieval society where the world that existed before lives on only as myth and legend, if it is known about at all. Carey ( The Girl With All the Gifts, Someone Like Me) demonstrates rather alarmingly in his post-apocalyptic novel, The Book of Koli that those kinds of assumptions are bound to die a quick death as the fragile tendrils of civilisation tear and snap under the destructive weight of the end of the world. In a world connected by jet planes, the internet and worldwide production chains, we take it as a given that getting things done fast and staying connected as we do so will always be a fact of life.īut prolific writer M. (cover image courtesy Hachette Australia) ![]()
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