Houston 2030 The Year Zero eBook Mike McKay
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It has been twenty-four years since the Peak Oil, and fourteen – since the world-wide economic collapse (and the Peak Everything.) The Civilization lives on. But it is a very strange new world. In some ways – similar, and in some ways – totally different from our own. What does the future hold for us?
This novel is both a classic police detective and a social science fiction. Or, you may call it a dystopian warning. As the name suggests, the action happens in not-so-distant future. The detective part is thrilling an FBI Special Agent follows a serial killer case. In the science fiction part, the reader will not find any robots, or flying cars, or super-computers. The end of our world does not come from zombies raised from the graves (although one “zombie” is positively present.) There are no viruses that kill a person in under thirty seconds (although, there are viruses that positively can kill.) There are no continent-size volcanoes, asteroid showers and aliens from outer space, and no Noah's Flood (although one flood is positively present, but very local.) Does not sound too scary to be a good read? Well, the global catastrophe described in the book is presently on-going! The world created by the author's imagination is remarkably similar and at the same time - remarkably dissimilar to our own, and yet – believable.
Houston 2030 The Year Zero eBook Mike McKay
We need a realistic view of a post-oil future, because we may be stuck with one.Unfortunately, this book is not it.
Two sentences from near the end of Chapter 1 clued me off on this:
"Every effort was applied not to bring the bodies into the morgue, but to make the relatives to pick them directly from the scene, so to save fuel and electricity." and
"Everything was locked up, and the streets were deserted and dark, save for a LED lantern here and there, and an occasional dim glare of TV and computer screens in the windows."
It does not compute, it does not compute, IT DOES NOT COMPUTE!
If fuel and electricity are in such famine that the cops make civilians drag their murdered family members into the morgue (on foot, since there are no private cars in this setting), then people should not be watching the telly and surfing the Web!
Fortunately this was a free book, so I will probably keep it to find out "Whodunnit", but if I had paid for it I would have returned it for my money back.
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Houston 2030 The Year Zero eBook Mike McKay Reviews
WILL MAKE GREAT TV SERIES!
Not too sure about this one. This was either a post apocalyptic novel thinly disguised as a murder mystery or vice versa. Grammer was horrible. Lots of contradiction sush as lack of cell phone service and then using the phone. It was an interesting concept of an apocalypse occuring not because of war but financially induced, very possible.
How can the preface be written clearly, yet the book be almost unreadable due to the broken English? What's worse, it is an interesting story. I couldn't finish. It's too frustrating.
A good example of realism, both in the plot and the characters. Apart from a few slightly lengthy digressions - very good read.
Was an alright book, language took a bit to get used to as in the way they spoke but interesting.
We need a realistic view of a post-oil future, because we may be stuck with one.
Unfortunately, this book is not it.
Two sentences from near the end of Chapter 1 clued me off on this
"Every effort was applied not to bring the bodies into the morgue, but to make the relatives to pick them directly from the scene, so to save fuel and electricity." and
"Everything was locked up, and the streets were deserted and dark, save for a LED lantern here and there, and an occasional dim glare of TV and computer screens in the windows."
It does not compute, it does not compute, IT DOES NOT COMPUTE!
If fuel and electricity are in such famine that the cops make civilians drag their murdered family members into the morgue (on foot, since there are no private cars in this setting), then people should not be watching the telly and surfing the Web!
Fortunately this was a free book, so I will probably keep it to find out "Whodunnit", but if I had paid for it I would have returned it for my money back.
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