Book description
For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain that's closer than we think.
'A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half
'Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities,…
Why read it?
1 author picked Dreamland as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I don’t read a lot of fiction, but sometimes only a novelist can flesh out how the world to come might look.
Dreamland has little to say about local food (apart from some neat rooftop gardening scenes), but it’s relevant as a kind of negative counterexample. Unless we get focused on realistic approaches to climate, food, energy, and justice right now this is the kind of world that we’ll summon into being – and it’s terrifying. The future it paints is based on trends that are all too evident in the here and now, adding to the sense of authenticity.
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From Chris' list on why we must adopt low-impact local food systems.
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