The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse old hatreds & new beginnings. It is his best novel to date. & this is how the world will end.. . The snow started falling on the sixth of September soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths or like static interference on your TV screen
- whichever metaphor nature or technology you find the more evocative. Snow everywhere all through the air with that distinctive sense of hurrying that a vigorous snowfall brings with it. Everything in a rush busy-busy snowflakes. & simultaneously paradoxically everything is hushed calm as quiet as cancer as white as death. & at the beginning people were happy. But the snow doesnt stop. It falls & falls & falls. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. Six billion people have died. Perhaps 150 000 survive. But those 150 000 need help they need support they need organising governing. & so the lies begin. Lies about how the snow started. Lies about who is to blame. Lies about who is left. Lies about what really lies beneath.