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Unto the Last Generation Kindle Edition
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Juanita Coulson
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The last child. Humanity's final hope
Fifteen years ago, Earth’s population ceased to mushroom. Wholesale application of population control technology had rendered man infertile, and it's not long before society loses its mind.
The Young and Old begin to spar over whose rights are most important. Leaders rise out of the darkness, and in political uprising food becomes a much fought-over luxury. Famine, plague and war spread like wildfire. And no children are born – anywhere. Two generations later, the spread of the immuno-factor was complete.
A team of scientists, headed by Dr. Richard Parnell and wife Therese, works tirelessly to produce life artificially. Then one day, a young girl walks into their midst. “I’m eight,” the girl announces proudly. Mankind has been sterile for more than fifteen years… How can she be alive, and so young, when not a single child has been born for two generations?
Parnell and his team are now on a mission: to find the parents of this young girl, named Ria, before the trail runs cold and humanity’s last hope disappears into the darkness. Unto the Last Generation is a gripping technological sci-fi thriller set in a dystopian future America.
'A richly detailed construction…’ - Hugo Award-winning author C J Cherryh
'Coulson works on an enormous canvas — sometimes almost overwhelming. The characters are always memorable' - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. For thirty-three years, she co-edited the science fiction fanzine Yandro with her husband "Buck" (Robert Coulson). Yandro was nominated for a Hugo Award every year from 1958 to 1967; it won the award in 1965, thus marking Coulson as one of the very first women to be so honored.
Fifteen years ago, Earth’s population ceased to mushroom. Wholesale application of population control technology had rendered man infertile, and it's not long before society loses its mind.
The Young and Old begin to spar over whose rights are most important. Leaders rise out of the darkness, and in political uprising food becomes a much fought-over luxury. Famine, plague and war spread like wildfire. And no children are born – anywhere. Two generations later, the spread of the immuno-factor was complete.
A team of scientists, headed by Dr. Richard Parnell and wife Therese, works tirelessly to produce life artificially. Then one day, a young girl walks into their midst. “I’m eight,” the girl announces proudly. Mankind has been sterile for more than fifteen years… How can she be alive, and so young, when not a single child has been born for two generations?
Parnell and his team are now on a mission: to find the parents of this young girl, named Ria, before the trail runs cold and humanity’s last hope disappears into the darkness. Unto the Last Generation is a gripping technological sci-fi thriller set in a dystopian future America.
Praise for Juanita Coulson:
'A richly detailed construction…’ - Hugo Award-winning author C J Cherryh
'Coulson works on an enormous canvas — sometimes almost overwhelming. The characters are always memorable' - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. For thirty-three years, she co-edited the science fiction fanzine Yandro with her husband "Buck" (Robert Coulson). Yandro was nominated for a Hugo Award every year from 1958 to 1967; it won the award in 1965, thus marking Coulson as one of the very first women to be so honored.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date13 Sept. 2015
- File size1659 KB
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- ASIN : B015CD26OM
- Publisher : Lume Books (13 Sept. 2015)
- Language : English
- File size : 1659 KB
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- Print length : 165 pages
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The story is based on a very interesting idea; that the human race had lost its capacity for reproduction. Not for lack of trying!! But the Ova rejected the sperm. Looking at some parts of the human race at the present time, one tends to think there aught to be a little letting-up on the production side!! Not much chance of that, I'm afraid. All that apart, I enjoyed the story; it was very enjoyable. M/s Coulson wrote this story in 1975, and it has not lost its magic.
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Thoughtful presentation of a disturbing scenario couched in a well-crafted nicely paced enjoyable novel.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2015
> Unto the Last Generation, Venture Press, a Sci-Fi e-book by Juanita Coulson
is a most interesting story about the degradation and eventual foreseeable
demise of the United States, as well probably as the rest of the world unless
important research can produce viable results.
> A catastrophic situation has developed where women can no longer produce
children. Figuring there is nothing worthwhile to live for, civilization is
rapidly disappearing, the cities are in ruin with the `youngers' dominating the
`olders' and even the midlifers. They are being further inflamed by a smooth
young politician, Nevin Detloff. With this situation, Richard Parnell, CEO of
the only organization attempting to study the life sciences and reverse or at
least counteract the disastrous results, gets a taxi to his building downtown.
The taxi is decrepit because of inability to obtain new parts and the driver
does not want to pass a ditsy (Government Food Distribution) center because of
the usual attendant riots. Parnell exits and moves toward his building passing
the ditsy when a riot begins - a child who has been able to obtain a food
package runs from the chasing crowd and grabs him. He picks up the child and
just makes his building safely before the mob. Terese, Richard's wife, takes to
the child immediately. She is a brilliant scientist who `put off' having
children to work with him until it was too late. War, famine, plague and overuse
of contraception finally culminated in appearance of a virus that completely
shut down all women's fertility. Thus arrival of a living child was mind
boggling. Additionally startling was the fact that the child was precocious and
well-read. She finally tells them that she is 8 years old, that her apparently
talented parents (actually described `hippies') were dead and that she is the
only person attempting to get food for a few `olders' who live in the Library
basement. Meanwhile the rioters decide to burn out the scientists and they are
saved by General Grigsby, the military overlord attempting to maintain order. He
also is Terese's father and is privately funding the Life Sciences Project.
Further detail would be an injustice to the prospective reader. Suffice it to
say the story continues at an accelerated pace to a finale that offers some hope
as the life scientists must move from their building to continue attempting to
restore fertility and/or produce viable clones against almost insurmountable
odds.
> Discussion: The author has provided a scenario that is indeed most seriously
thought provoking especially in light of the world wide situation of chaotic
disarray - the devastating Middle East wars with immigrants streaming across
Europe; the Soviet/Ukraine engagements; the worldwide earthquakes/tsunamis; and
within the U. S. the abundance of difficult to control fires throughout the west
coast, tornados and flooding elsewhere, the racially based riots and the general
unrest and dissatisfaction with the government. All of these elements enter into
making this book a thoroughly worthwhile read.
is a most interesting story about the degradation and eventual foreseeable
demise of the United States, as well probably as the rest of the world unless
important research can produce viable results.
> A catastrophic situation has developed where women can no longer produce
children. Figuring there is nothing worthwhile to live for, civilization is
rapidly disappearing, the cities are in ruin with the `youngers' dominating the
`olders' and even the midlifers. They are being further inflamed by a smooth
young politician, Nevin Detloff. With this situation, Richard Parnell, CEO of
the only organization attempting to study the life sciences and reverse or at
least counteract the disastrous results, gets a taxi to his building downtown.
The taxi is decrepit because of inability to obtain new parts and the driver
does not want to pass a ditsy (Government Food Distribution) center because of
the usual attendant riots. Parnell exits and moves toward his building passing
the ditsy when a riot begins - a child who has been able to obtain a food
package runs from the chasing crowd and grabs him. He picks up the child and
just makes his building safely before the mob. Terese, Richard's wife, takes to
the child immediately. She is a brilliant scientist who `put off' having
children to work with him until it was too late. War, famine, plague and overuse
of contraception finally culminated in appearance of a virus that completely
shut down all women's fertility. Thus arrival of a living child was mind
boggling. Additionally startling was the fact that the child was precocious and
well-read. She finally tells them that she is 8 years old, that her apparently
talented parents (actually described `hippies') were dead and that she is the
only person attempting to get food for a few `olders' who live in the Library
basement. Meanwhile the rioters decide to burn out the scientists and they are
saved by General Grigsby, the military overlord attempting to maintain order. He
also is Terese's father and is privately funding the Life Sciences Project.
Further detail would be an injustice to the prospective reader. Suffice it to
say the story continues at an accelerated pace to a finale that offers some hope
as the life scientists must move from their building to continue attempting to
restore fertility and/or produce viable clones against almost insurmountable
odds.
> Discussion: The author has provided a scenario that is indeed most seriously
thought provoking especially in light of the world wide situation of chaotic
disarray - the devastating Middle East wars with immigrants streaming across
Europe; the Soviet/Ukraine engagements; the worldwide earthquakes/tsunamis; and
within the U. S. the abundance of difficult to control fires throughout the west
coast, tornados and flooding elsewhere, the racially based riots and the general
unrest and dissatisfaction with the government. All of these elements enter into
making this book a thoroughly worthwhile read.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2015
Originally published in 1975 and re-released as an eBook in 2015, Unto the Last Generation is proof that a forty-year-old story can still be relevant. More than ten years after a virus caused all women to become fertile, our protagonist - Richard Parnell, director of the Life Sciences Project - stumbles across someone who may be the hope of humanity... an eight-year-old girl, Ria.
This is not a very showy tale, especially compared to some of the more recent series - Divergent and Hunger Games, for example - but it holds its own, with a solid concept, different subsets of characters with well-established reasons for their behavior, and a thread of hope that runs though even the darkest sections of the book. My biggest complaint is that, even though the story is complete, the book almost feels too short.
3 1/2 Stars.
I received an advance copy of this book from the Publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for an unbiased and honest review.
This is not a very showy tale, especially compared to some of the more recent series - Divergent and Hunger Games, for example - but it holds its own, with a solid concept, different subsets of characters with well-established reasons for their behavior, and a thread of hope that runs though even the darkest sections of the book. My biggest complaint is that, even though the story is complete, the book almost feels too short.
3 1/2 Stars.
I received an advance copy of this book from the Publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for an unbiased and honest review.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2016
A good, well constructed story. One of the best I have read recently. Loved it!
Five stars for plot, narrative and characterisation. It is well formatted and worked well on my kindle with no flow problems. Read it through in one sitting. Author added to my list for future reads.
Five stars for plot, narrative and characterisation. It is well formatted and worked well on my kindle with no flow problems. Read it through in one sitting. Author added to my list for future reads.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2017
Yes very relevant as in reality we seem to be being urged by the media into age related grouping! Shame. This is a good, steady and readable story, 40 years old too!
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