Dreamland
Book description
For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain that's closer than we think.
'A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half
'Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities,…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Dreamland as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I don’t read a lot of fiction, but sometimes only a novelist can flesh out how the world to come might look.
Dreamland has little to say about local food (apart from some neat rooftop gardening scenes), but it’s relevant as a kind of negative counterexample. Unless we get focused on realistic approaches to climate, food, energy, and justice right now this is the kind of world that we’ll summon into being – and it’s terrifying. The future it paints is based on trends that are all too evident in the here and now, adding to the sense of authenticity.…
From Chris' list on why we must adopt low-impact local food systems.
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