Monkey droppings - Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde: "Once monochrome fundamentalism gets a hold, it can be hard to eradicate."

Today, the monkey weirds out on the future of mankind.

I'm a'scared, I tells ya!



Shades of Grey
by Jasper Fforde
Penguin Group (Canada), 2009

The known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

It has been a boon time for purveyors of post-apocalyptic fictions. Margaret Atwood has received plaudits for The Year of the Flood , Cormac McCarthy saw his Road hit cinemas, and all told, there is a bleakness that translates well into artistic expressions of mankind's...