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England, ca 2035
Indeholder kapitlerne "1. Floden: Sparcot", "2, Cowley", "3. Floden: Swifford marked", "4. Washington", "5. Floden: Oxford", "6. London", "7. Floden: Slutningen".
Ovenpå en stor krig i 1981 er naturen ved at overtage marker og bebyggelser igen. De resterende mennesker og mange af de
I 2018 var Algernon og hans kone Martha 43 år gamle. 11 år tidligere slog de sig ned i Sparcot. De kom fra Cowley, hvor de var kommet til fra London via Oxford. Der var koleraepidemi og militær undtagelsestilstand, så en kommandør Croucher bestemte hvor de blev indkvarteret. Algy arbejdede for DOUCH(E) en engelsk gren af en amerikansk oprettet organisation (Documentation of Universal Contemporary History (England)), hvor ideen var at dokumentere hvad der sker og om menneskene overlever eller uddør. Algy har rådighed over et køretøj, der rummer alt hvad han har brug for til dokumentationen. Croucher kan godt se en pointe i at kunne retfærdiggøre sig efterfølgende, så han knytter Algy til sig. Dog kun for at få fingre i køretøjet, men Pitt som er sat til at skyde Algy og tage bilen, overgiver sig i stedet til Algy og de stikker af med bilen. De er Algy, Martha, Pitt og en anden soldat ved navn Studley. Desværre får Studley kolera og de stopper i Sparcot, hvor de ender med at blive de næste 11 år. Den anden vinter der bytter de DOUCH(E) vognen bort for noget hårdt tiltrængt mad. Croucher dør også af sygdom, så ingen kommer efter dem i Sparcot.
De fortsætter ned ad floden og stopper op, da de møder handelsmanden Norsgrey og hans kone Lita., der ifølge Norsgrey ligger bag et forhæng og sover. Norsgrey fortæller også at han er to hundrede år gammel, så deres tiltro til hvad han siger, er ikke så stor. De kan høre larm fra et nærliggende marked i Swifford. Norsgrey har et rensdyr. De er de eneste større pattedyr, der kan formere sig og efter at krigen sluttede i 2005, importerede man nogle af dem.
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En "efter katastrofen" bog, hvor samfundet er faldet sammen og ingen tilsyneladende længere ved hvordan man sætter skaft på en hammer. Romanen er skrevet i 1964, hvilket godt kan mærkes. De transporterer sig rundt i vindbrusere (windrush på engelsk).
Indeholder kapitlerne "1. Floden: Sparcot", "2, Cowley", "3. Floden: Swifford marked", "4. Washington", "5. Floden: Oxford", "6. London", "7. Floden: Slutningen".
Ovenpå en stor krig i 1981 er naturen ved at overtage marker og bebyggelser igen. De resterende mennesker og mange af de
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højere udviklede pattedyr ser ud til ikke at kunne formere sig mere. I landsbyen Sparcot ved Themes floden bor manden Algernon Timberlane, også kaldet Algy eller Gråskæg. Han og hans kone Martha er blandt de yngste i Sparcot, hvor der bor ca 120 mennesker. Lederen hedder Big Jim Mole og sørger for at der altid er en på vagttjeneste. Menneskene bliver truet af flokke af lækatte, der formerer sig fint i modsætning til rotterne, der bliver færre og færre. En dag kommer to både ned ad floden fyldt med flygtninge fra landsbyen Grafton Lock lidt længere oppe ad floden. Mange er blevet bidt af lækatte og de advarer Sparcot borgerne, der dog i stedet har tænkt sig at plyndre bådene. Det ender i kaos og folk, der drukner. Gråskæg og hans kone benytter lejligheden til at smutte væk fra Sparcot og Big Jim Mole, der er blevet mere og mere urimelig og brutal. De tager Charley Samuels med, hvis kone døde for et års tid siden. Han har en tam ræv, Isaac, med. Et andet par, Becky Thomas og hendes mand Towin er også på vej væk og slutter sig til Gråskæg. De styrer ned ad floden men holder sig fri af Zigøjner Joan, der anførte den første båd fra Grafton Lock. Første stop bliver en nedlagt kro, hvor konen ligger død af kræft ovenpå og manden har taget livet af sig nedenunder ved at drikke afløbsrens. Mændene bærer ligene udenfor i et skur. Senere på aftenen slutter Jeff Pitt på 65 sig til selvskabet. Kroparret havde nogle får gående og Jeff foreslår at de lukker dem ind for natten og passer på dem.I 2018 var Algernon og hans kone Martha 43 år gamle. 11 år tidligere slog de sig ned i Sparcot. De kom fra Cowley, hvor de var kommet til fra London via Oxford. Der var koleraepidemi og militær undtagelsestilstand, så en kommandør Croucher bestemte hvor de blev indkvarteret. Algy arbejdede for DOUCH(E) en engelsk gren af en amerikansk oprettet organisation (Documentation of Universal Contemporary History (England)), hvor ideen var at dokumentere hvad der sker og om menneskene overlever eller uddør. Algy har rådighed over et køretøj, der rummer alt hvad han har brug for til dokumentationen. Croucher kan godt se en pointe i at kunne retfærdiggøre sig efterfølgende, så han knytter Algy til sig. Dog kun for at få fingre i køretøjet, men Pitt som er sat til at skyde Algy og tage bilen, overgiver sig i stedet til Algy og de stikker af med bilen. De er Algy, Martha, Pitt og en anden soldat ved navn Studley. Desværre får Studley kolera og de stopper i Sparcot, hvor de ender med at blive de næste 11 år. Den anden vinter der bytter de DOUCH(E) vognen bort for noget hårdt tiltrængt mad. Croucher dør også af sygdom, så ingen kommer efter dem i Sparcot.
De fortsætter ned ad floden og stopper op, da de møder handelsmanden Norsgrey og hans kone Lita., der ifølge Norsgrey ligger bag et forhæng og sover. Norsgrey fortæller også at han er to hundrede år gammel, så deres tiltro til hvad han siger, er ikke så stor. De kan høre larm fra et nærliggende marked i Swifford. Norsgrey har et rensdyr. De er de eneste større pattedyr, der kan formere sig og efter at krigen sluttede i 2005, importerede man nogle af dem.
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En "efter katastrofen" bog, hvor samfundet er faldet sammen og ingen tilsyneladende længere ved hvordan man sætter skaft på en hammer. Romanen er skrevet i 1964, hvilket godt kan mærkes. De transporterer sig rundt i vindbrusere (windrush på engelsk).
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[Kbh.] Notabene 1973 252 s.
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Human reproduction has ceased and society slowly spirals in this "adult Lord of the Flies" by a Grand Master of Science Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle). After the "Accident," all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth's population lives in spread‑out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties. When the people of Sparcot begin to make claims of gnomes and man‑eating rodents lurking around their village, Greybeard and his wife set out for the coast with the hope of finding something better.
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LibraryThing member edgeworth
Brian Aldiss is one of those science fiction authors I’ve heard of plenty but am only just getting around to reading, and it was either this or Hothouse. Greybeard takes place in a world in which nuclear radiation from an orbital accident has messed with the van Allen belts and rendered many
One of my favourite films of the last decade is the brilliant Children of Men, which posits more or less the same scenario, only earlier in the course of events, with the youngest people being in their late teens. (I knew it was based on a book, but according to Greybeard’s introduction, it’s a pretty rubbish one and the film is much better.) Of course, Aldiss had the idea first, since Greybeard is from the 1960s. It presents a pretty compelling and intriguing post-apocalyptic scenario; not one of bleakness and violence, but one where the world is most definitely ending with a whimper rather than a bang. Part of the fun is seeing Greybeard and his companions travelling about and discovering how things are in the rest of post-decline England, with people hawking rejuvenation snake oil and claiming the Scottish are coming down to conquer them.
It’s an interesting enough book but it never quite captured me. It’s bogged down a bit too much by flashbacks throughout Greybeard’s life: his childhood, when the radiation first began, his time in his twenties in the military and later working for an American organisation trying to record humanity’s death throes – unfortunately called DOUCH, made worse when Greybeard works for the English arm, DOUCH(E) – and his time in his forties living in Oxford when the nation-state is beginning to break up and the city is under the sway of a violent dictator. This sounds good in theory, fleshing out the world and the slow decline, but I found that in practice it disrupted the pace and the tone too much. I would have preferred for Greybeard and his friends to just be sailing down the river at the very end of humanity’s story, and only reminiscing about the past through dialogue. I suppose that’s what makes Greybeard feel more like high concept science fiction than a sad, miserable post-apocalyptic story like Children of Men. Aldiss also has a bad habit of clunky exposition – not all the time, but enough that I noticed it.
I still found Greybeard reasonable enough. It’s a creative idea executed with skill, just with enough flaws to stop me from really liking it. I’ll certainly read some of Aldiss’ other works.
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mammals, including humans, infertile. As the novel begins, the titular character is actually one of the youngest humans alive, in his mid-fifties. Virtually no children have been born for half a century and the world has slowly decayed; England has decayed to a Middle ages level of society, with remote communities cut off from each other and very little law and order. The novel begins when Greybeard and his wife grow tired of living in the tiny village in which they have sheltered for the past twelve years, and decide to sail down the Thames in the hope of seeing London and the ocean again.One of my favourite films of the last decade is the brilliant Children of Men, which posits more or less the same scenario, only earlier in the course of events, with the youngest people being in their late teens. (I knew it was based on a book, but according to Greybeard’s introduction, it’s a pretty rubbish one and the film is much better.) Of course, Aldiss had the idea first, since Greybeard is from the 1960s. It presents a pretty compelling and intriguing post-apocalyptic scenario; not one of bleakness and violence, but one where the world is most definitely ending with a whimper rather than a bang. Part of the fun is seeing Greybeard and his companions travelling about and discovering how things are in the rest of post-decline England, with people hawking rejuvenation snake oil and claiming the Scottish are coming down to conquer them.
It’s an interesting enough book but it never quite captured me. It’s bogged down a bit too much by flashbacks throughout Greybeard’s life: his childhood, when the radiation first began, his time in his twenties in the military and later working for an American organisation trying to record humanity’s death throes – unfortunately called DOUCH, made worse when Greybeard works for the English arm, DOUCH(E) – and his time in his forties living in Oxford when the nation-state is beginning to break up and the city is under the sway of a violent dictator. This sounds good in theory, fleshing out the world and the slow decline, but I found that in practice it disrupted the pace and the tone too much. I would have preferred for Greybeard and his friends to just be sailing down the river at the very end of humanity’s story, and only reminiscing about the past through dialogue. I suppose that’s what makes Greybeard feel more like high concept science fiction than a sad, miserable post-apocalyptic story like Children of Men. Aldiss also has a bad habit of clunky exposition – not all the time, but enough that I noticed it.
I still found Greybeard reasonable enough. It’s a creative idea executed with skill, just with enough flaws to stop me from really liking it. I’ll certainly read some of Aldiss’ other works.
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LibraryThing member clong
Greybeard reads like a sad but gentle, almost pastoral, requiem for humanity. It is a simple but effective post-apocalyptic tale, one in which Armageddon has come not with fire and brimstone but with the slow expiration of humanity made sterile by incautious scientific experimentation. The story is
This is science fiction not about blowing things up and dazzling readers with the author’s fecund imagination, but about what happens to ordinary people, both as individuals and in society, in extraordinary circumstance. Our protagonist Algernon Timberlane (aka “Greybeard”) is one of the youngest of the last generation of man. Algy is a complicated character, one who makes mistakes and is shaken by doubts, yet aspires to something more than the mindless plodding towards extinction that surrounds him. His relationship with his strong and supporting wife Margaret is surprisingly nuanced. There is less violence than you might expect (even in a lawless world, people eventually get too old to be very effective at raping and pillaging). We are constantly shown that nature has hardly blinked at the impending death of man (and the other high mammals we’re taking with us).
Greybeard has the feeling of a quest book, and while the characters may not exactly know what they are seeking, the reader eventually gets the sense that it is some slight ray of optimism about the future of mankind. I might quibble with the ending a bit, but overall I liked this book a lot.
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told in two alternating storylines: Greybeard and a small group of aging companions make a journey down the Thames from a dieing neo-feudal village towards the sea; between stops we are given flashbacks to a series of episodes much earlier in the post-fertility era.This is science fiction not about blowing things up and dazzling readers with the author’s fecund imagination, but about what happens to ordinary people, both as individuals and in society, in extraordinary circumstance. Our protagonist Algernon Timberlane (aka “Greybeard”) is one of the youngest of the last generation of man. Algy is a complicated character, one who makes mistakes and is shaken by doubts, yet aspires to something more than the mindless plodding towards extinction that surrounds him. His relationship with his strong and supporting wife Margaret is surprisingly nuanced. There is less violence than you might expect (even in a lawless world, people eventually get too old to be very effective at raping and pillaging). We are constantly shown that nature has hardly blinked at the impending death of man (and the other high mammals we’re taking with us).
Greybeard has the feeling of a quest book, and while the characters may not exactly know what they are seeking, the reader eventually gets the sense that it is some slight ray of optimism about the future of mankind. I might quibble with the ending a bit, but overall I liked this book a lot.
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LibraryThing member Calenture
The time is the early twenty-first century, and humankind is dying, the entire race rendered sterile by an atomic 'accident' in 1981. Greybeard, barely yet sixty, is one of the youngest men alive. The story opens in the village of Sparcot on the Thames, where Big Jim Mole governs a ramshackle
Although Man is dying out other lifeforms are prospering: rabbits and foxes are plentiful. Stoats have increased to the point where they have become a menace, hunting in massive packs. One or two of the larger mammals have also survived, including the reindeer, introduced to Britain in the latter years of the twentieth century. Far from being a gloomy scenario, the theme of humankind’s sterile end provides a rich canvas for Aldiss's narrative: villages, forest, river, lakes and cities, swarming with life, human and animal.
Greybeard decides that the time has come to leave Sparcot and Jim Mole's tyrannical regime, and takes advantage of a threatened stoat attack and the ensuing confusion to slip away down the river with his wife Martha and a few companions. Away from the enforced isolation of Sparcot they find that the human race is returning to a semblance of normality. At Swifford Fair they encounter the bizarre Bunny Jingedangelow, seller of rejuvenating potions and eternal life. Here and there are reminders of the old world they have left behind: crossing a lake dotted with islands, a railway station and signal box jut out of the flood, home to a mad hermit.
With alternating chapters the narrative moves between present and past, showing how the world has come to this pass. The flashback sequences are less enjoyable: the breakdown of civilization, martial law, famine and disease, hag-ridden army officers philosophizing over gin and tonics in fly ridden bars. While not exactly dull, these scenes are inevitably gloomy, and it's a relief when the flashback is over. We've been there too many times before.
It's a brave book which has no dashing, youthful hero or young female beauty to hold the lead roles. There is love: the love of Greybeard for his Martha. The book evokes a pastoral vision of England; an England reverting to a wild Pleistocene state. The ending...the ending is marvelous.
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community of oldsters, eking out a living by farming, poaching (though who there is to poach from is not clear) and occasionally exacting a toll from travelers who attempt to take a boat under the Sparcot bridge.Although Man is dying out other lifeforms are prospering: rabbits and foxes are plentiful. Stoats have increased to the point where they have become a menace, hunting in massive packs. One or two of the larger mammals have also survived, including the reindeer, introduced to Britain in the latter years of the twentieth century. Far from being a gloomy scenario, the theme of humankind’s sterile end provides a rich canvas for Aldiss's narrative: villages, forest, river, lakes and cities, swarming with life, human and animal.
Greybeard decides that the time has come to leave Sparcot and Jim Mole's tyrannical regime, and takes advantage of a threatened stoat attack and the ensuing confusion to slip away down the river with his wife Martha and a few companions. Away from the enforced isolation of Sparcot they find that the human race is returning to a semblance of normality. At Swifford Fair they encounter the bizarre Bunny Jingedangelow, seller of rejuvenating potions and eternal life. Here and there are reminders of the old world they have left behind: crossing a lake dotted with islands, a railway station and signal box jut out of the flood, home to a mad hermit.
With alternating chapters the narrative moves between present and past, showing how the world has come to this pass. The flashback sequences are less enjoyable: the breakdown of civilization, martial law, famine and disease, hag-ridden army officers philosophizing over gin and tonics in fly ridden bars. While not exactly dull, these scenes are inevitably gloomy, and it's a relief when the flashback is over. We've been there too many times before.
It's a brave book which has no dashing, youthful hero or young female beauty to hold the lead roles. There is love: the love of Greybeard for his Martha. The book evokes a pastoral vision of England; an England reverting to a wild Pleistocene state. The ending...the ending is marvelous.
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LibraryThing member usnmm2
This is about a world where wowmen can no longer have children. What would the world be like in 30 or 40 years.
LibraryThing member ericj.dixon
In Greybeard, Aldiss relates the waning years of mankind with a poetic-like prose. The story is most enjoyable when seen through the flashbacks of Greybeard, because they are so revelatory. the ending gives hope for the future of humanity, but not those who made the mistakes. The future lies in the
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hands of a new generation, one filled with hope and thankfully disconnected from society, and therefore hopefully not plagued with the mistakes of the past. Show Less
LibraryThing member sf_addict
I read this years ago, or tried to but I didnt get it at the time and probably didnt finish it back then. This time however I found it very enjoyable!
Basically its set in about the 2030s, 50 years after a nuclear accident when bombs were set off in space, causing a catastrophic disruption in the
Re-reading after all these year I would heartily recommend this if you are a fan of post-apocalyptic works- in fact I'd go so far as to say this is the best Aldiss book I've read so far!
Basically its set in about the 2030s, 50 years after a nuclear accident when bombs were set off in space, causing a catastrophic disruption in the
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Van Allen belts that surround the Earth and protect us from solar radiation.. The 'accident' resulted in this radiation from the sun briefly reaching the Earth, rendering the human ace sterile. At the time the book opens the human race is represented by the elderly, eeking out a living pottering around Oxford and London, looking for, and on guard against, others. There are rumours of new children born but it seems to be all myths perpetuated by deranged old lunatics, or is it?.....Re-reading after all these year I would heartily recommend this if you are a fan of post-apocalyptic works- in fact I'd go so far as to say this is the best Aldiss book I've read so far!
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LibraryThing member fothpaul
I actually found this book a bit boring. I enjoyed the start and was looking forward to finding out about Algy Timberland's journey to the coast, through a childless and infertile England of the future. The sotry seemed to get a little bogged down on past events and dialogue, things which I felt
This formula continued until the final 20 pages, when it suddenly became interesting again and it ended with a flourish. Th flourish wasn't quite enough for me to be particularly impressed with the whole book though. I feel a little let down as I liked the idea behind the book, but would much rather it had focused a bit more on the developing situation of the characters, rather than their past lives.
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affected the flow of the story badly and left me wandering off quite a lot. I'd read a page and then realise I hadn't actually taken in what was saidThis formula continued until the final 20 pages, when it suddenly became interesting again and it ended with a flourish. Th flourish wasn't quite enough for me to be particularly impressed with the whole book though. I feel a little let down as I liked the idea behind the book, but would much rather it had focused a bit more on the developing situation of the characters, rather than their past lives.
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LibraryThing member Veeralpadhiar
This book's theme is very much similar to "The Children of Men" by P. D. James or more correctly it is the other way round as this book was published before "The Children of Men". I haven't read the latter though as there is a general consent out there that the movie for once was better than the
Now coming back to this book's review, I could only say that it started off pretty well but kind of dipped in the middle when it became over-preachy and philosophical. But I have to admit that the characters are well developed for such a comparatively short novel. Aldiss relies excessively on human philosophy in the latter half of the novel which cripples the pace somewhat, but that doesn't make this a particularly bad experience.
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book. And having watched the fantastic movie starring brilliant and underrated Clive Owen, I have no plans to read the novel by P. D. James.Now coming back to this book's review, I could only say that it started off pretty well but kind of dipped in the middle when it became over-preachy and philosophical. But I have to admit that the characters are well developed for such a comparatively short novel. Aldiss relies excessively on human philosophy in the latter half of the novel which cripples the pace somewhat, but that doesn't make this a particularly bad experience.
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LibraryThing member comixminx
(Borrowed from Janet)
Interesting and well-done; as (seemingly) ever with Aldiss, it is a bit deathy especially at the beginning, but I did enjoy the bits set in and around Oxford, and generally the idea & working through of the slow and inevitable decay of our world due to no new children being
Interesting and well-done; as (seemingly) ever with Aldiss, it is a bit deathy especially at the beginning, but I did enjoy the bits set in and around Oxford, and generally the idea & working through of the slow and inevitable decay of our world due to no new children being
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born. Not so sure about the ending, seems a bit of an implausible way of injecting a bit of hope into the situation, but hey. Show Less
LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
A couple, from a community of sterile 50'ish humans go looking for children in a world repairing itself from the human infestation. As I grow older, I'm fonder of this book, but I read it a good long time ago.
LibraryThing member arubabookwoman
In this work of classic dystopian science fiction, a nuclear accident has left the human race (as well as larger mammals) sterile, and no children have been born for many years. As the youngest humans reach their late 50's, society has disintegrated rapidly and completely, and people live in
Recommended.
3 stars
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technologically primitive tribes, defending themselves against attacks from packs of animals. The characters are seeking to find meaning to a life in which there is no one to pass the world on to. The New York Times has described this work as "An adult Lord of the Flies without Golding's heavy-handed symbolism and cumbersome style." That seems to me to be an apt comparison, although I would have kinder words about Golding's symbolism and style.Recommended.
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LibraryThing member richardderus
The Publisher Says: The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation coming to replace them; instead nature is rushing back to obliterate the disaster they have brought on themselves. Was slighty revised by the author in 2012.
My Review:
Chapters 1-3 take place in 2025 and on, or the mid-point of the story. Chapter 4 takes place as the world finds its way through the crisis. Chapter 5 has us back in about 2030...Chapter 6 is early days of the Accident, as the sterilization of Earth's humans is called...and then back to 2030 in Chapter 7. It's kind of a confused way to tell a story. Not that it's a complicated story, but it's always nice to have things move along in sequence when there's no reason, stylistic or otherwise, for them not to.
Aldiss' Introduction to the 2012 edition tells of the genesis of the story...a divorce, a general reduction of his life to solitude, and a desperate yearning for his lost kids...and I must say that this Introduction is what kept me going for the whole short 237ish pages. I could relate to his sense of loss and his almost desperate longing. I looked for those things in his text and really didn't find them too terribly often. Many things occur in the book, but few of them happen, if you see what I mean; Greybeard, the main character, and Martha, Greybeard's wife, aren't prone to overstatement. Jeff, a character whose slippery presence is highly emotionally charged, makes little impact in the end. Charley, the dopey religious nut, isn't much of a shakes for shakin' stuff up either. Dr. Jingadangelow (!) the snake oil salesman is fun...I picture Eddie Izzard playing the role in a movie...but rattles on and rockets off ballistically.
I didn't love the book, but it's got at its heart a futureless bleakness that resonate with. After 50 years, the Accident's specifics don't quite line up with reality, but I have no smallest problem imagining specifics that end us up in the same place. One day soon, y'all should go read Sir Roy Calne's book Too Many People. I can see that causing the Accident with all too great a clarity of inner vision.
On the low end of the recommend-to-others scale, and then only to those who like post-apocalyptic stories.
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First published in 1964, at the tail end of one of the scariest passages during the Cold War, this post-apocalyptic look at the resilience and the lack of same in the human spirit was involving and affecting. It was also a disorganized mess.Aldiss' Introduction to the 2012 edition tells of the genesis of the story...a divorce, a general reduction of his life to solitude, and a desperate yearning for his lost kids...and I must say that this Introduction is what kept me going for the whole short 237ish pages. I could relate to his sense of loss and his almost desperate longing. I looked for those things in his text and really didn't find them too terribly often. Many things occur in the book, but few of them happen, if you see what I mean; Greybeard, the main character, and Martha, Greybeard's wife, aren't prone to overstatement. Jeff, a character whose slippery presence is highly emotionally charged, makes little impact in the end. Charley, the dopey religious nut, isn't much of a shakes for shakin' stuff up either. Dr. Jingadangelow (!) the snake oil salesman is fun...I picture Eddie Izzard playing the role in a movie...but rattles on and rockets off ballistically.
I didn't love the book, but it's got at its heart a futureless bleakness that resonate with. After 50 years, the Accident's specifics don't quite line up with reality, but I have no smallest problem imagining specifics that end us up in the same place. One day soon, y'all should go read Sir Roy Calne's book Too Many People. I can see that causing the Accident with all too great a clarity of inner vision.
On the low end of the recommend-to-others scale, and then only to those who like post-apocalyptic stories.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1964
Physical description
252 p.; 18.1 cm
ISBN
8774900544 / 9788774900542
Local notes
Omslag: Peter Sugar
Omslaget viser en gammel mand med gråskæg, nogle andre gamlinge og en djævel og en mår
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "Greybeard" af Tove Nørlund
Notabene science fiction, bind 6
Side 20: medføte (typo for medfødte)
Side 42: Alle dødelige var nu mærket af alderdommens furer. Døden rugede utålmodigt over landet og ventede på at tælle sine sidste få pilgrimme.
Side 60: selvbestlatede (typo for selvbestaltede)
Side 73: enste (typo for eneste)
Side 77: kommwer (typo for kommer)
Side 87: faktiskt (typo for faktisk)
Omslaget viser en gammel mand med gråskæg, nogle andre gamlinge og en djævel og en mår
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "Greybeard" af Tove Nørlund
Notabene science fiction, bind 6
Side 20: medføte (typo for medfødte)
Side 42: Alle dødelige var nu mærket af alderdommens furer. Døden rugede utålmodigt over landet og ventede på at tælle sine sidste få pilgrimme.
Side 60: selvbestlatede (typo for selvbestaltede)
Side 73: enste (typo for eneste)
Side 77: kommwer (typo for kommer)
Side 87: faktiskt (typo for faktisk)
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