- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; Abridged edition edition (6 Mar 1980)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0194242382
- ISBN-13: 978-0194242387
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 11.4 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,534,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Although we may live in a world of alleged global warming this book was written when it hadn't really been considered. A new ice age brings the ice cap south of London, England. The story is about how people escape to African countries, the way they are treated by their hosts and ultimately an expedition back to discover how things now stand in London. It's interesting to see how the tables are turned on those from the First World when they have escaped to the Third World. It wouldn't be far from reality and not undeserved either. It's another What If? book and again comes out tops. Why is it so many of the books from the seventies never made it to film or even TV series?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Very good post-apocalyptic novel about a future where the level of solar radiation declines so it becomes perpetual winter in the northern hemisphere and most of the population flees to the warmer climes of Africa. Africa then becomes politically dominant leading to an ironic post-colonialist situation where white waiters kowtow to black masters in Lagos. Written in 1962 the novel contains some conceptions of racial loyalty that read uncomfortably today and the final section jars slightly because of this. The marital relationships of the leading four characters also remind one of Noel Coward's Private Lives!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A good end-of-the-world story. It's very dated, both in the scenario and language, but remember, this is from before the worries about global warming and before calling black men Sambo and assuming they were inferior was thought to be perhaps not in the best of tastes. I refuse to judge a book badly simply because of when it was written. But unfortunately, it is let down by an unconvincing ending, in which the main character's motivations and the new life he has created for himself get turned on their head for completely incomprehensible reasons. Still worth reading though if you can find it for a few pennies second-hand.
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