Review of “Wild Abandon”, Joe Dunthorne, TLS, August 19th 2011
This is a brief review of an entertaining second novel by Joe Dunthorne. It didn’t quite have the success of Submarine, which was a pity, since in many ways the…
Tag: social collapse fiction
William Gerhardie – a perpetually “lost writer” rediscovered again. SAU Blog, 2005
William Gerhardie is a writer whose fame rests on obscurity. Prominent early in his career, and feted by Waugh and Greene as their better, he later became “lost.” Being “lost”…
The Collapse of Complex Societies – Joseph Tainter
Somewhere along the way I came across references to Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies and finally read it in recent weeks. Tainter’s prose style reminded me a little of John…
Inherit the Earth (part 1) Nthposition December 2004
Originally published in two sections – “five years from now” and “ten years from now”, Inherit the Earth has it roots in Richard Klein’s Eat Fat, a book which the linked NY…
Séamus Sweeney 