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The Children of Men

P. D. James · 1992 · Novel

Setting: near future (2021)

Synopsis

"The year is 2021, and the human race is - quite literally - coming to an end. Since 1995 no babies have been born, because in that year all males unexpectedly became infertile. Great Britain is ruled by a dictator, and the population is inexorably growing older. Theodore Faron, Oxford historian and, incidentally, cousin of the all-powerful Warden of England, watches in growing despair as society gradually crumbles around him, giving way to strange faiths and cruelties: prison camps, mass organized euthanasia, roving bands of thugs.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: End of the worldFictionMale InfertilityFiction, science fiction, generalEngland, fictionFiction in ItalianHistory teachersTwenty-first centuryScience fictionFin du monde

isfdb_id: 9090

openlibrary_id: OL510890W

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