The Children of Men / P.D. James

The Children of Men
by P.D. James

science fiction... etc ?!

copyright 1992
read (partly) in December 2013

rated 5 / 10: readable, but only if there's nothing else

Not a bad book, really. Sort of interesting, as far as I read it. I read to page 80. Then I was tired of waiting for something to happen... Read the Wikipedia entry and decided that that was enough.

Okay, I also read the last few pages of the book, to see if there was anything  significant... Wikipedia may have missed the hint of absolute power about to corrupt a new person...

This book is science fiction. It takes a single -- major -- change and explores the possibilities.

It is also a kitchen sink melodrama, examining the personal lives of rather boring people.

The book is, in large part, an examination of society. Society and its reaction to a major change, a major threat to the future of the human race. As such it is... well... worthy. Slow, boring but worthy.

You know what really surprises me ? The book was published in 1992 ! Why does that surprise me ? Because it reads like some ancient novel from the  Victorian era.

Old-fashioned.

So. Interesting points. Worthy analysis of possibilities. Slow and boring.

A book for a very long, rainy day... If all libraries and bookshops -- and the internet, and tv -- are unavailable.

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