Kings of a Dead World by Jamie Mollart5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() A woman hits the pavement in front of me, her head bouncing off the tarmac. All of them swallowed by the murky waters of the Thames as it spread out across the country.Ī scream startles me back to the present. ![]() ![]() When I lived in London, in the days before the waters rose when it was still the capital, I used to spend hours strolling along the South Bank sitting outside Gordon’s wine bar with a bottle of red wine that seemed to go on and on. This is one of the things I miss, sitting around and talking. The limited time people are Awake tends to make people shy away from idle chit-chat to begin with. It’s hard to bring yourself around anyway and after The Sleep you are initially left with a desire to be insular. They keep their eyes on the ground in front of them. In the futuristic Earth that Jamie Mollart has created in his latest novel, natural resources are dwindling, the waters have risen, and hibernation is deemed a possible solution. A ghost of a man.’ Science fiction novels play with the very many possibilities of how our world – and other worlds – can change. ‘I’m shocked at how thin I look, how old, how tired. ![]()
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