![]() ![]() It’s hard for much of the book to determine exactly what the overreaching story is. ![]() Being a self-confessed railway geek, that’s what drew me to these books. A 200-meter wide strip of land that’s declared independence. It’s a railway line that crosses Europe from Lisbon to Chukotka, Siberia. There’s even a sovereign state that’s thousands of miles long. Fragmented into numerous states and polities. It hasn’t just broken up, it’s shattered. America is reclusive, Xian Flu has decimated the world’s population, and the European Union has broken up. (This is a slightly odd comment as Le Carré’s son, Nick Harkaway, does write science fiction and the ones I’ve read are nothing like Europe in Autumn).Īs the novel opens we find ourselves in near future Europe, post some unspecified but heavy-duty geopolitical upheavals. If the books of John Le Carré and China Miéville had children, this is how they might turn out. Blessed are the libraries for they bring us great books.Īnd Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe sequence is great indeed. ![]() ![]() Clarke nominee Nod by Adrian Barnes, sitting at the front of my local library were copies of 2015 nominee Europe in Autumnand its sequel Europe at Midnight.I’d heard great things about these books, but hadn’t gotten around to picking them up. By coincidence, whilst I was reading 2013 Arthur C. ![]()
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