Often the appeal of science fiction lies in the genre’s ability to extrapolate from the trends of the present and project them into the future. One novel exemplifying this tendency is The Children Of Men by P.D. James.
In The Children Of Men, the reader finds a world where the population has become inexplicably infertile and must deal with the stresses of a dwindling population and the psychological angst that results when many realize what’s the point of life if it will come to a screeching halt in a scant generation. Such a milieu is explored through the eyes of Oxford Historian Theodore Faron who becomes a reluctant intermediary between a group of bumbling, idealistic revolutionaries and the dictatorial Warden of England who happens to be Theodore’s cousin.
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