The Long Winter is the terrorizing story of what happens when a new Ice Age devastates the Northern Hemisphere, when civilization disappears...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not what expected, but still excellent,
This review is from: The long winter (Mass Market Paperback)
Synopsis: Solar output is down, resulting in the advent of the next ice age. 2 London upper-class couples find themselves at emotional and apocalyptic crossroads. Tossed upon the shores of an uncaring African nation, they struggle in a world alien and beleaguered.Pros: The beautiful despair and degradation of this riches to rags fable following Londoners fleeing to the slums of Nigeria. Cons: The book was not what I expected. My review represents what to expect - the blurb on the back of the jacket sets up a very different story. At page 70 I was wondering why I was reading this thing. By 90 I was about to toss it out. By 120 I couldn't put it down. Remember, the book was written in 1962 for a much different audience than the post-apoc audience of today. Survival Fun Fact: When our fragile world tilts beyond equilibrium, you will find that currency is waste paper and credit as a funny story to tell the grandchildren about. Gold, gems, and guns will be the currency of the day . . . stock up.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Racism survives the next ice age,
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This review is from: The long winter (Mass Market Paperback)
As a kid I'd devoured John Christopher's "The White Mountains", the first in the Tripod series. I readily identified with the three young boys who wanted to avoid assimilation into the mediocrity by being "capped" and controlled by the alien Tripods. Instead they set off for the White Mountains where they can live as nature intended despite the harsh conditions. It's such a gay-boy story without intending to be that it earned a prize place on my boyhood bookshelf. Christopher's "The Long Winter" is an adult version of this adventure that ties neatly into our current ecological crisis but in reverse--a drop in solar radiation has caused the first modern ice age. Europeans flee the frigid north for the African continent to survive, only to find themselves thrown off balance by the ruling black majority. What is interesting is that Christopher does not play up the ecological disaster, but rather the domestic troubles of TV producer Andrew Leedon, his promiscuous wife, her stubborn lover and his "tried and true" wife whom Andrew falls in love with, all with this horror show--eternal winter, wars and cannibalism--in the background. The novel tracks Andrew from the newly arctic London where the general populous has been left to their own devices, his humbling and eventual resurrection in Africa, and his return to London via hovercraft to reclaim the city and woman that he loves. In this unpresumptuous novel are the racial mores of 1960's, the philsophy behind needing to identify not only with one's country but with one's race, and an interesting case study of an Englishman's inability to let go of Queen and Country in the face of certain death. Maybe not a great book, but a fascinating read.
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
social satire, war story, disaster tale limply rolled into one,
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This review is from: The long winter (Mass Market Paperback)
This book deals with a new ice age enveloping the world. It spends far too much time on the romantic triangle that forms an unnneccessary core of the plot. Frankly, I didn't like any of the characters except the African, Abonitu. There was some nice bits of social satire showing the displaced refugee Brits getting the royal screwing over and exploitation from their African hosts that they so richly deserve but for the most part this book is a rather dull exploration of what should have been a ripping good yarn.
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