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  Things We Didn't See Coming (Paperback) By (author) Steven Amsterdam

  Book rating: 05

  

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  Short Description for Things We Didn't See ComingFollows a man as he tries to survive - and to retain his humanity - in a world savaged by successive cataclysmic events. This book shows that even as the world is spinning out of control essential human impulses still hold sway - that we never entirely escape our parents, envy the success of those around us and, chiefly, that we crave love.
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  • Publisher: HARVILL SECKER
  • Published: 05 August 2010
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781846553660 ISBN 10: 1846553660
  • Sales rank: 89,284

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• Things we didn't see comingBook rating: 5

  Things We Didn't See Coming is a series of vignettes set in the not too distant future. We follow an anonymous male from childhood where the world as we know it is on the brink of some catastrophic collapse on New Year's Eve/New Year's Day. This is not dissimilar from all the hype that surrounded the Y2K bug when everybody thought that everything would collapse due to computers being unable to recognise the year 2000. The narrator's father packs up the family and heads to the relative safety of the countryside. We follow the boy through to the future as he grows up. This is a very accessible and rather sad read. It shows the possible, and not so unrecognisable, future and leads us from our current environment into what might be. While the novel appears in a series of vignettes, this works especially well as we follow the boy from an innocent and recognisable childhood to a future filled with sickness and corruption. The ideas of our heavy reliance on industrialisation and unsustainable mass consumption, health care, heavy medication of the human body and climate and environmental change are some of the issues that underlies the stories. by M

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