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Strange Horizons Reviews: Archives. Victoria Hoyle: From the very first page there can be no doubt at all that Mc. Carthy is situating The Road in a tradition of great narratives of death, despair and hope, and of sheer human doggedness. It contrives to be two novels at once. On the one hand it is a thoroughly contemporary post- apocalyptic novel: an elegy for our world, in both its modernity and its natural beauty, and a clarion warning of what we stand to loose through expedient stupidity. On the other, it is a parable, stripped bare—a mythic representation of humanity's struggles to reconcile suffering with divinity, and despair with the instinct to love. This is a tradition within science fiction that reaches back to Carolyn See's Golden Days (1. George R. Stewart's Earth Abides (1. Richard Jefferies's After London (1. The Road seems to fit right in, telling the familiar story of the struggle of civilised people to survive when there is no more civilization. On closer examination, however, this line of descent is not so plain. The Latest on AXSBy clicking Next, you agree to the AXS. Terms and Conditions. You may opt out of these communications at any time via your online account or via the 'unsubscribe' instructions in any communications you receive.
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