Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780446343558
ISBN number: 0446343552
Label: Warner Books
Manufacturer: Warner Books
Quantity: 1
Printing Date: 1987-05
Publishing house: Warner Books
Sale Popularity Level: 769648
Studio: Warner Books
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It was a good book when it originally came out in the 80's can't wait to read it again to see if the fiction has come true....
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In a future world of gross pollution and ongoing disasters, a charismatic doctor emerges who begins to win massive world support with his Depopulation Party. This party proposes to organize an impartial, orderly and semi-voluntary die-off of a third of all humans, ostensibly to make human future possible.
This is a grim yet very evocative book, well written, with characters that come alive. The description of the environmental catastrophe seems overwrought (esp. in 2008), but the general gist of it, and the determined "ostrich syndrome" of this world's better-off inhabitants, rings true. It's a shame it is based on a flimsy, downright risible premise: "reducing the population, added to natural attrition, will trigger extinction" of the human species. The book explicitly states that if humans don't shrink themselves, nature will do it for them in higher numbers, then leaves the issue hanging. One silly repartee argues that because burial will be logistically impossible, cremation is the only other option and will ruin what remains of the atmosphere!
I am all ears for ideas how to prevent a human die-off in the future and cope with the challenges. But Strieber and Kunetka don't seem to have the intellectual honesty to tackle the issue head-on. While the book is devoted to discrediting the approach of the Depopulationists, and promises to come up with another solution, it fails to fulfill this promise. Lame.
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I really liked this book. I read it many years ago, and picked it up again last year to read once again. It was written back in the early 80's, but set in the near future. I enjoyed how the authors would take real excerpts from newspapers and put them at the beginning of every chapter. It was also interesting how they would add their own articles for the events that happened later (ie: they would have more excerpts that would be from the year 1990, or 2000, or 2010, etc. etc.) They painted a dark image of how the world may end up, but I think they did a fantastic job of keeping you interested and wanting to read more and more. If you like Fiction that's got a swirl of truth, than you will love Nature's End.
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The writing team that brought you the classic Post Nuclear psuedo-autobiography Warday, team up again to tackle another potential disaster, this time it's pollution gone wild. In this ecological disater tale, Strieber and Kunetka use some of the devices they used during Warday, particularly Government Reports, Newspaper Articles and witness interviews to give the feeling your reading a true story. Yet, unlike Warday, this not a "fake documentary" but a good, action filled story with so very well drawn characters. I'm not sure of the science behind the whole situation that the writers use, or whether this cautionary tale is even remotely likely, biut as a story, it works. Here they uses some classic science fiction themes reminiscent of Phillip K. Dick, and they do it well.
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Absolute absurdity. I read this book back in 1989 and followed the "news headlines" to compare them to actual headlines. Not even close. The air and water are cleaner and technology is making lives better.
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