![]() ![]() In a world where there is no hope nor future. James dystopic novel The Children of Men. In 2017 Rolling Stone magazine ranked Children of Men as the best SF film of the twenty-first century. The theme of religion is a topic that is constantly present in P. James was reported to be pleased with the film, although the screenplay ("writing and screen writing of the highest order") bore very little resemblance to the novel. A well-received film based on the book was released in 2006. But a chance involvement with a group of dissidents moves him onto unexpected paths, leading him, in the novel's compelling second half, toward risk, commitment and the joys and anguish of love" (Publishers Weekly). Divorced, middle-aged Oxford history professor Theo Faron, an emotionally constrained man of means and intelligence who is the Warden's cousin, plods through an ordered, bleak existence. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, plots this atmospheric and disturbing novel in the year 2021. In England, under the rule of an increasingly despotic Warden, the infirm are encouraged to commit group suicide, criminals are exiled and abandoned and immigrants are subjected to semi-legalized slavery. The last birth occurred in 1995, and in the space of a generation humanity has lost its future. Near the end of the twentieth century, for reasons beyond the grasp of modern science, human sperm count went to zero. James "poses a premise that chills and darkens its setting in the year 2021. ![]() In her twelfth novel the popular British crime writer P. A thought-provoking tale of the human race on the brink of extinction. ![]()
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