Thus I grew up, became more cynical, and started to think 'this is a stupid dystopia, it wouldn't work because of $plot-hole'.
The things that stood out for me were how little it had dated, and how rich a world it was - the novel was short, but very evocative, it is the type of world that could spawn a million fanfics.Īlso, I have finally noticed - when I read dystopias when I was a child, I thought they were warnings about what the world could become.
The first person protagonist is well drawn - you are on his side, but he is at times dim and a bit shitty, it's nice not to get a gloriously talented mary sue taking you through the world.
There is a delightfully light handed vein of the supernatural in there too, and not _too_ much 'everything would be different if we all just Got Religion'. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Show More and the inner city ghettos of the Unnems, where everything is games and fame and a short and ugly life, the wild free spaces of Scotland, and the rural idyll of the Fenlands, where life is slow, and all is ancient pleasures.
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