APRIL is MORE 'Dystopian Britain Novels' Month
Back in January of 2019 I devoted the month to reviewing novels about a near-future, dystopian Britain. In the ensuing 7 years I've come across some additional novels to read and review, being alerted to some of these by the Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence tome 'Scarred for Life,' which is a sort of 'Whole Earth Catalog' overview of UK pop culture in the 1970s.
So, stand by for reviews and commentary on novels where it's an alternate UK, sometime in the 1970s, and things aren't going well. Plagues, economic collapse, dour Scots insisting on forming their own country (we all know what a catastrophe that would be !) will force our doughty Brits into confronting lives of privation and desperation.
And remember: in the UK, it's extraordinarily difficult to acquire firearms. If you live on a rural estate you might have inherited an ancient shotgun, for Birding, from your great-great-grandfather Lord Argyll, but that's pretty much it. So Radioactive Rambos are noticeably absent from postapocalyptic Britain. Ingenuity and edged weapons, that's the trick....!
