Greybeard by Brian Wilson Aldiss

By Brian Wilson Aldiss

Ecological catastrophe has left the English nation-state a barren region. Humanity faces extinction, except Greybeard and his spouse Martha are winning of their quest for the scarcest and most valuable of assets: human teenagers.

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Bigger members of the cat tribe had also suffered. All over the world, the story in the early nineteen-eighties had been the same: the creatures of the world were incapable of reproduction. The earth such was the apocalyptic nature of the event that it was easy even for an agnostic to think of it in biblical terms - the earth failed to bring forth its increase. Only the smaller creatures that sheltered in the earth itself had escaped wholly unscathed from that period when man had fallen victim of his own inventions.

The cholera is only just hitting its stride, Commander Croucher. " Angrily, Croucher said, "Manifestations, hell! Tomorrow, everyone in the Churchill Hospital will be shot. No doubt you will cry out about that also. But you do not understand. You must expunge the erroneous misapprehension. I have no wish to kill. " "It's true! Chaos and civil war are absolutely deterrent to me! Listen to me, what YOU tell Me Of DOUCH(E) confirms what I had already been informed. You were not lying to me. So-" "Why should I lie to you?

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