News From Gardenia

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When Gavin Mecklers light aircraft encounters a mysterious cloud near Didcot power station in Oxfordshire & lands in a nearby field he is bewildered to discover the power station is nowhere to be seen. In the eerily quiet landscape a strangely silent tractor is making its way towards him. Gavin discovers he has landed two hundred years into the future into a world that is wholly recognisable & yet utterly different. A gentle peaceful sustainable place where it is possible to travel from one side of the world to the other in a matter of minutes without burning fuel & where everyone is a gardener because thats how they can be sure to eat. As Gavin learns about this new world & the society he becomes part of he also begins to learn about himself. In 1978 Robert Llewellyn read a novel that profoundly changed his view of the world. News from Nowhere was written in 1890 by the utopian socialist William Morris a man now more famous for his wallpaper. In it Morris attempted to imagine the Britain of the 1980s. Morriss benign fable couldnt have been further from the truth but decades later driven to distraction by the torrent of dystopian books & movies that show the world descending into chaos & destruction Robert Llewellyn has decided to write his own version of Morriss novel. Like its Victorian predecessor News from Gardenia a shows us a better future where we dont burn anything to make anything else & which isnt hovering on the brink of disaster; where aliens havent invaded; where meteors havent hit & where zombies havent taken over. In short a world where we eventually get it right. Everything in News from Gardenia could happen. There is no technology described within that hasnt already seen the light of day. Llewellyns future isnt perfect & may not be very likely but it is entirely possible.