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The Last Albatross (Human Rites #1)
by
Ian Irvine (Goodreads Author)
From bestselling Australian author and environmental scientist Ian Irvine comes a chillingly realistic thriller that will have you asking: Is there life after global warming?
Hercus Barges, a middle-aged failure embittered about ruinous climate change, is planning the ultimate crime: the destruction of western civilisation. And he knows just how to do it. Hercus attempts to...more
Hercus Barges, a middle-aged failure embittered about ruinous climate change, is planning the ultimate crime: the destruction of western civilisation. And he knows just how to do it. Hercus attempts to...more
3rd Edition, revised, 396 pages
Published
August 1st 2008
by Simon & Schuster Australia
(first published January 1st 2000)
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I guess there's space in the bookshops now for a new genre of popular fiction, the eco-thriller. This one, set in 2010, is as pessimistic as they come with suicide greenies, greenie murder cults, gormless henchmen and corrupt business types.
Its interesting but not terribly well written. Huge parts of it are terribly contrived and the plot twists are pretty easy to see coming. But it's an enjoyable romp and I'll buy the sequels if I find them.
He has some ignorant views on carbon trading I must sa...more
Its interesting but not terribly well written. Huge parts of it are terribly contrived and the plot twists are pretty easy to see coming. But it's an enjoyable romp and I'll buy the sequels if I find them.
He has some ignorant views on carbon trading I must sa...more
The protagonist was occasionally annoying, as was the idea of technology fritzing out on a massive scale on a regular basis. (Can you imagine the internet going down? That's pretty much impossible, and yet it happens dozens of times in the book.) Maybe it lost a bit of its intended effect because it takes place in 2010 and I read it in 2009. But I just wasn't all that interested in a fictional account of politics gone wrong and what it would be like to live in a world where the albatross was ext...more
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The Last Albatross is set in a near future Australia where the technology, environment and economy is failing. It is a story of extreme environmentalists versus, in the beginning at least, an apathetic materialistic woman and her partner.
The heroine of the story is Jemma. She is an overweight, unconfident school-teacher who wants to have a child. Her older partner, Ryn, is a computer scientist who forecasts the damage from major weather events. At the start of the book he is working on a progra...more
The heroine of the story is Jemma. She is an overweight, unconfident school-teacher who wants to have a child. Her older partner, Ryn, is a computer scientist who forecasts the damage from major weather events. At the start of the book he is working on a progra...more
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This book appealed to me by the very nature of its subject matter which has become even more topical of late. Climate change and approaches to how best to manage humans stamp (ing) on mother earth. His characters are once again believable even if we dont like them or what they are doing. A hero or two along the way and a very bleak future for our planet with power corrupting once again.It took me a while to settle into to this book but once again I enjoyed his writing style and it made me keen e...more
For a book that really isn't my style (I don't seem to have the energy for thrillers), I enjoyed this. Jemma is a great heroine, and I found Irvine's suggestions about what might happen to the world under pressure from global warming very prescient. I'll be reading the next one.
Loved it. Very different to my normal fantasy preference. An action packed adventure in a near future global warmed Earth.
Whilst part of a trilogy it can stand alone.
Whilst part of a trilogy it can stand alone.
Not what I expected but so far I am enjoying this series & agree with Sue's comments
I haven't read any of his other books, he is a little too Scifi for my taste. But. This series is good. It has a global environmental bent to it. Very current, Very believable. It can be a bit difficult to follow thru all three books as it does spiral down into inevitable disaster. Just read this first one, its a good story in itself. And then decide if you want to go on.
Obviously an early work but worth wading though for the relevance to the later books in the series, which are great.
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Ian has written 29 novels, including the internationally bestselling 11-book Three Worlds fantasy sequence: The View from the Mirror Quartet, The Well of Echoes Quartet and The Song of the Tears Trilogy, http://www.ian-irvine.com/threeworlds....
Ian’s latest book is Rebellion, Book 2 of a new epic fantasy trilogy The Tainted Realm, published in Australia in October 2012, and in the UK and US in ear...more
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Ian’s latest book is Rebellion, Book 2 of a new epic fantasy trilogy The Tainted Realm, published in Australia in October 2012, and in the UK and US in ear...more
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