The ‘how’ and the ‘why’ slowly became less important as people got used to the ‘what’, and realized the big final ‘when’ was heading towards them like a storm front that not even the fastest, the richest, the cleverest or the most powerful were going to be able to outrun. No one knows what caused the “end of the world” although the narrator, Griz, has heard “as many theories as there were suddenly childless people-a burst of cosmic rays, a chemical weapon gone astray, bio-terror, pollution (you lot did make a mess of your world), some kind of genetic mutation passed by a space virus or even angry gods in pick-your-own-flavour for those who had a religion. The worldbuilding is one of the best things about A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World. The only reason I’m not kicking myself for not reading it sooner is that now is the perfect time to read it. Fletcher got shoved out of the way and I didn’t think about it again until I read Heather’s review at Froodian Slip and went in search of my copy (which turns out to consist of uncorrected page proofs, but I’m going to quote from it anyway to show you how great this book is). Somehow A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Last year I came home with the usual pile of books from ICFA and left some of them stuck into bookshelves around the house because I don’t have a special shelf for books I haven’t read yet.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |