S.F. Masterworks Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, (Paperback)

from comixminx

Very much enjoyed, would recommend. One caveat: the premise (cataclysm has happened, earth is drastically underpopulated and human fertility is knackered in) sounds like it fitted into a good old post-apocalyptic mould, but actually I'd say it's more like The Midwich Cuckoos. Its real interest is...

from Pferdina

Great story, I was very impressed that this was first published in 1974 because it could have been written today. The book looks at three generations of a family in the mountains of western Virginia: first, those who built the survivalist camp when they recognized how the rest of the world was ab...

from salimbol

An intelligent, thought-provoking treatment of the sociological and psychological implications of cloning, which grapples with the age-old question about the needs of the individual as opposed to the needs of society (especially as, in the author's universe, cloning seems to engender a kind of hi...

from burritapal

Written in 1976, this book addresses what happens when civilization breaks down. An extended family owns farms scattered throughout a valley somewhere in the Midwest. One member of the family realizes that mankind's habits of polluting his world is tipping the point of the Earth's ability to supp...

from electrascaife

An epidemic all but wipes out the world's population, but one large (and very wealthy) family pool their extensive expertise to survive it and rebuild on their Shenandoah Valley land. This rebuilding involves cloning of both animals and humans, and the saga, detailed over several generations, fol...