Twenty Twenty Eight

Twenty Twenty Eight is a sharp piece of political speculation. Set in the near future where oil resources are entirely depleted a totalitarian state is in near collapse, forced into surrender by subversive gangs taking over the cities.

The action centres on a group of people who stockpile food, arms and ammunition in a disused lead mine to defend themselves against desperate, half-starved hoards pouring out of the cities. Realising that their situation is hopeless they eventually decide to escape this horror altogether, heading across country to a small schooner and what they think will be a new Utopia. But what awaits them is something a lot more ominous.

This is a fast paced but wonderfully evocative novel that paints a strikingly vivid picture of how our world could be in the not too distant future.