zero one, zero two: we are all dead

ISBN-13: 9781539762607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str.

Amanda Baker

Opis

NASA's TRAPPIST 1 announcement Feb 2017 is eerily pre-empted by this unusual novella published in November 2016. NASA's official download poster for children even echoes the feel of 0102 's cover. Let's hope it's not a portent. ZERO ONE ZERO TWO is a minimalist offering of satirical social comment wrapped in science fiction and a futuristic dystopian narrative sprinkled with dark, dry humour and occasional poetry. Humanity is running out. We already live in a world where the Japanese have gone off sex and the air our children breathe is poisoned. In the UK and the US, leaders reject truth and compassion and we are ignoring global annihilation because it does not fit with rampant consumerism. For Rachel Smith and her four companions all this is in the distant past along with cannibalism, land collapses and real human interaction. 200 years old, she exists in the mess created by 20th and 21st century 'civilisation'. Eventually there are too few humans left. Flung out into space at the mercy of technology she does not understand, with memories and ghosts for company, Rachel faces the unknowable unknown alone. Just like TRAPPIST 1, Rachel's destination is merely guessed at by scientists using data from super telescopes and mathematical equations. But she cannot come home