peteg's blog - noise - books - 2020 10 14 JohnBrunner TheShiftKey

John Brunner: The Shift Key. (1987)

Wed, Oct 14, 2020./noise/books | Link

Kindle. Quite the worst book by Brunner I've read yet. The set up is horror but many words later we're told it was just a chemical leak. Too many irrelevant characters and vignettes and repetitions. The point, I think, was to hitch a ride with a/the cultural revolution and riff on the perfectibility of the once and future paradisal English village. Pagan hippies to the rescue.