Earth (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: David Brin
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cautionary
- Time of Work: 2038
- Setting: Various locations on Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Twenty-first century, Gangs, youth, Environment or environmental health, Energy, Greenhouse effect or global warming, Extinct animals
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
The action in Earth takes place at a time when overpopulation and environmental destruction have pushed planetary resources to the limit. With natural habitats destroyed by war or global warming, and with Earths ozone layer depleted by pollution, many plants and animals have become all but extinct, with a few remnants kept in steel and glass arks. Refugees from nations flooded by rising seas drift on rafts across the oceans; there is no land on which to settle. In the United States, tribal gangs of teenagers without jobs clash with the growing elderly...
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