Which novel best addresses the urgency of the ecological crisis?

[Pete Harrison]

I'd have to vote for The Road, by Cormac MacCarthy. It is an extraordinary book, but also it does too easily fit into a simple reading of a possible future; it is apocalypse-fiction, like many others.

Are there other novels out there which address the crisis maybe obscurely, in surprising and interesting ways?

[RSA Projects]

Cor... I wish I had time to post more on this.

Sadly I'm just rushing away for two weeks holiday with the kids. It's a really good question - and I have some candidates. Hope this discussion is still going in two weeks.

w

[Pete Harrison]

HI William,
have a great holiday -
I'll start this discussion up again in few weeks if it goes quiet -
pete

William Shaw said:

Cor... I wish I had time to post more on this.

Sadly I'm just rushing away for two weeks holiday with the kids. It's a really good question - and I have some candidates. Hope this discussion is still going in two weeks.

w

[Lucille Bonne]

Jeanette Winterstone- The Stone Gods

[Pete Harrison]

Hi Lucille,
I don't know The Stone Gods but it sounds fascinating, I'll certainly read it -
I found a great piece about it by Jeanette Winterstone herself on her site: http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=471

Thank you -

Any more?

Lucille Bonne said:

Jeanette Winterstone- The Stone Gods

[Lucille Bonne]

Its definately obscure,but some of her imaginings are frighteningly beleivable,I loved every minute of it!!
Hope you enjoy,
Lucille

Pete Harrison said:

Hi Lucille,
I don't know The Stone Gods but it sounds fascinating, I'll certainly read it -
I found a great piece about it by Jeanette Winterstone herself on her site: http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=471

Thank you -

Any more?

Lucille Bonne said:

Jeanette Winterstone- The Stone Gods

[Natasha Rivett-Carnac]

Hi Pete,

Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" is a contender. She's also published a new one on a similar theme called "The Year of the Flood" that comes out this September.

Natasha

[Lucille Bonne]

I just read a review of that today looking forward to it very much.

Natasha Rivett-Carnac said:

Hi Pete,

Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" is a contender. She's also published a new one on a similar theme called "The Year of the Flood" that comes out this September.

Natasha

[Tom Corby]

In the past month I've been on an apoclyplse tip.

I re-read a lot of early Ballard: The Drowned World, + Hello America which are obviously great reads if a little dated nowdays.
I've then read Liz Jensen's The Rapture which is recent and also worth a look.

The road by Cormac McCarthy is magnificant, if very sobering. For days afterwards I l kept wanting to burst into tears. Highly recommened, beg, borrow or steal this book and read it.

I've got the new Atwood, the wife doesn't rate it but I'll give it a go.