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Retrieved from the Future (Paperback)

by John Seymour (Author)
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  • Paperback: 235 pages
  • Publisher: New European Publications; First Edition edition (6 Nov 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1872410057
  • ISBN-13: 978-1872410050
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 538,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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John Seymour imagines a crash of the structure of Government in Britain and gives a chilling but realistic description of how a federation of East Anglia survives. The recent emergency procedures following the collapse of the South East Asian economies suggest that Seymour is fairly near the mark in his vivid description of life in such circumstances.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Prescient! A 'peak oil' novel published in 1996, 25 Feb 2009
By Keith Thomas (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Most people had not thought about running out of cheap energy when John Seymour (yes, it's THE John Seymour) wrote this novel. People who have read James Kunstler's "World Made by Hand" (set in about 2025) will have wondered about just what happened between the present day (Kunstler's book was published in 2008) and Kunstler's 2025. John Seymour's book provides one view of the period of collapse which Kunstler largely skips.

Seymour is not a great novelist and the book is an odd mix of good and pedestrian plot, dialogue and description. However, Seymour has done a five-star job at giving a thinking reader a rich vein of ideas and scenarios with which to imagine the future and their place in it.

Seymour provides detail of the fight put up by national authorities to hold on to power - brutally in the UK he depicts. Interestingly, both Kunstler and Seymour share a view of the future in which local, largely self-sufficient communities matter more than nations.

Also like Kunstler, Seymour's world is largely a man's world with children, the aged and sick people playing little active role and being surprisingly unproblematic.

I recommend this book highly to those who want help to imagine the future for which they need to begin planning now. Those who believe "they" (the powers that be) will come up with a solution to the end of cheap energy and want a cleverly written novel will be disappointed. I passed my copy on to my son - he shares my assessment.
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