> Wyndham's Day of the Triffids. Could still give me nightmares. Is it less
> pessimistic if only almost everybody dies?
Add to that, +The Death of Grass+ by John Christopher. Same difference.
But then there's Wyndham's +The Crysalids+, but even there ... though The
Good (?) win out finally, it's a pretty bleak success.
> On the continent, Capek's War with the Newts. Also a happy ending, if one
> waits a few dozens of millennia. Manages to be very funny on the way to
the
> gallows, tho. Capek was lucky enough to die just before the Gestapo got
> around to him. His brother wasn't so lucky.
Though R.U.R. is optimistic.
Oddly (or is it?) current Glasgow SF -- Iain M. Banks and Ken McLeod (whom
Doug Barbour intially pointed me towards) is pretty optimistic. And Chris
Boyce, who died much too young.
Robin
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