![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the survivors he meets have become mentally unbalanced. ![]() The hero must contend with marauding gangs and loneliness. There is no post-apocalyptic utopia in this book. Christopher keeps the story going a a brisk pace, and he knows how to build tension in too. In real time of the winter 2020, the Covid pandemic provides a context. Empty World by John Christopher revolves around the story of Neil Miller, a teenager who was living a normal life until a car accident killed the rest of his family. The whole world is melting around him as the world population is overwhelmed by a plague. It doesnt take long before the reader learns of a plague that starts in India, but quickly moves across the globe. The story of isolation and tragedy kicked in early in the life of Neil a young teen gradually orphaned of family. Christopher lets the reader believe that our hero succeeds in the post-plague world precisely because he is already dead inside. A terrible plague has swept the world, leaving only a few survivors. He has lost the ability to care about anything and is just going through the motions in life. Empty World by John Christopher (1977) 134 p. ![]() The trauma of the event has made him dead inside. When we first meet the hero, a teenaged boy living in Britain, we learn that he has just lost his family in a terrible auto accident. Christopher doesnt waste time or words getting down to business with this post-apocalyptic story about a plague that kills off most of the world's population leaving our hero as one of the few survivors. ![]()
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