The Hopkins Manuscript

A science fiction story about the moon crashing into the earth....or is it? You might read this story as the politics of the first half of the 20th century, the great cataclysm of the moon crashing into the earth is World War 1, the Era of Recovery, is the post war years, the war between the Europea......more

Funny, tragic, and so bloody prescient. In a foreword we learn that the last inhabitants of Great Britain starved to death 1000 years ago. Following a Cataclysm in which the moon came out of its orbit and crashed into the Earth, the nations of the East spread into devastated mainland Europe, but not......more

Its not everyday, we come across a novel written by a British author/playwright/screen writer, no less one born in 1896. More interesting is how he approaches the creation of Edgar Hopkins, a compassionate farmer who raises prize winning chickens in Beadle, a small town on the outskirts of London. T......more

Edgar, a quiet and polite forty-something Englishman (who will sound off, when provoked) has two interests in his lonely life: the Moon...and his precious prize-winning chickens (Broodie always wins). Unfortunately, it turns out that one of Edgar's interests will cancel out the other: the Moon is pr......more

Ja nie wiem kurwa. Jako satyra na angielską klasę średnią-wyższą i prowincje to nawet ciekawe, choć nużące i te kilkadziesiąt lat później mało zabawne. Jako post-apo, gdy apokalipsa zaczyna się realnie w 3/5 książki, to trochę nuży i mało się na niej skupia. W ogóle NUŻĄCA to dobre słowo dla tej pow......more