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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780871139788 ISBN: 0871139782 Label: Atlantic Monthly Press Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: February 11, 2008 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Studio: Atlantic Monthly Press Sales Rank: 2597 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In the best-seller The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like after these coming catastrophes—the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource wars—converge. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren’t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the residents struggle with the new way of life in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers replenished with fish. A captivating, utterly realistic novel, World Made by Hand takes speculative fiction beyond the apocalypse and shows what happens when life gets extremely local. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Unfortunately.I was actually looking very much forward to this one, having read the premise and some positive reviews. I'll have to go back and look at those reviews and see if any women wrote them. I'd be surprised, if so. Yes, this book sees a near distant future where the oil has dried up, some bombs have gone off here and there, there's no power and the infrastructure has collapsed. What's unfortunate is the lack of imagination on the part of the author, who has apparently never met a genuinely strong ... Read More Rating:  - Plausible situationA good read on the airplane. The book moved quickly and the story line was interesting. It does give an interesting potential future. I think too many people 'hope against hope' and are not nearly logical or rational enough but in a state of denial. The book does have a brightness to it that I think a lot of people miss when Peak Oil is discussed. Overall, a good solid read that is not too difficult on the brain. Rating:  - Nope. It is NOT a realistic depiction, nor is it a good read!To mix metaphors - I had great expectations and instead found a shipwreck on the island of apathy. First, I will give credit where due - the protagonist is well described and I can empathize with his feelings, depression and apathy. That's basically it for the positive. It's as if Kunstler did a minimal bit of research and then zero critical thinking on how a society would revert to a more primitive form of social organization once the technological foundation of that modern ... Read More Rating:  - World made by handIt was a good read. The writer manipulated my assumptions of the characters in a subtle, yet effective way. Also, I enjoyed the detail of description that people in the story went to cope with life with the lack of today's infrastructure. Thought provoking. Rating: - Read "The Long Emergency First"You need to read "The Long Emergency" by Kunstler before you read this book. The former is his projection of the breakdown of the hydrocarbon based society we live in today "World Made By Hand" is a fictionalized account of the society which follows the collapse of that world. The book is believable and adheres to the authors vision of the future. It's a good work of science fiction and provides some "food for thought" along the way. Browse for similar items by category:
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