![]() ![]() ![]() They’re keen on a particular mask (though this is fro a rock group, not a movie, as today). At the centre of the story are fans of alternative music, and alternative lifestyles, who gather at traditional spots (and some non-traditional) around the country and refuse to move. What’s curious, reading it now, is how many echoes there are of the Occupy movement, in a novel written more than a decade before the first Occupy tent peg was driven in. (The rest of the world, we sketchily learn, is on varying parts of the same spectrum.) Published in 2001, it tells the story of “Dissolution Summer”, as Britain splits into its constituent parts, the economic and technical systems break down, and total societal collapse looms. (Couldn’t face The Road again – it is a brilliant book, but I spent two weeks depressed after reading it!) Something a bit both radical but also playful seemed like the seasonal thing, if you’re going to read something like this at all. ![]() I was reading an article about “Armageddon fiction” - well there is a lot of it around at the moment, for obvious reasons - and comment left on it recommended Gwyneth Jones’s Bold As Love in a way that caught my fancy. ![]()
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