![]() In the first of its two time-frames, ‘Before’, civic-minded hacktivist Rush has cut off access to the commercial internet in Stokes Croft, a counter-cultural enclave of Bristol, and replaced it with a strictly independent local network. That point is driven home in Infinite Detail, the debut novel from British author Tim Maughan. A massive communications failure would itself have catastrophic consequences, crippling everything from food deliveries to satellite navigation. It’s a familiar fictional scenario – but arguably the wrong way round. Why Children of Men has never been as shocking as it is now How science fiction helps readers understand climate change So it is that the survivors realise their fate is in their hands alone. But the phone lines are down, the airwaves full of static. ![]() There, they try desperately to call for help from the outside world. Refugees from some apocalyptic threat – a natural disaster, say, or a killer plague or even zombies or aliens – secure themselves in some bolt-hole. ![]()
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