The Children of Men

“If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

In this dystopian world no babies are born, and humanity is plodding towards extension. After a period of anarchy society becomes docile, attending lectures on history, baking flans, gardening, pushing cats around in prams, watching porn and generally just wandering around. But there is a dark side. Secret police, forced suicide, medieval prison islands and a bunch of last borns called Omegas who strut around and are generally unpleasant. All of this overseen by The Warden.

And then, a baby is born, and everything becomes a bit of malarkey involving a group called the 5 fishes and some bad pot holes. Yes pot holes not plot holes.

This was pretty good. Supremely written, quite dark, a bit boring in places. The thing with the cats kind of freaked me out. Overall, a good addition to the dystopian shelf.