HERDEIROS DA TERRA (FICÇÃO CIENTÍFICA BRUGUERA #15)

Greybeard (1964) '-' Eles sofreram os horrores da radiação atômica. A lembrança do passado os enchia de pesar e de remorso. Não podiam nem mesmo se refugiar no futuro: o futuro deixara de ser essa promessa vã do dia a dia para tornar-se uma terrivel e angustiante incógnita. A vida gerava somente a espera da morte. O homem havia cumprido seu breve destino sobre a velha Terra."Greybeard is an adult Lord of the Flies without Golding’s heavy-handed symbolism and cumbersome style" -- ” NY TimesAfter the "Accident," all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties. When the people of Sparcot begin to make claims of gnomes and man-eating rodents lurking around their village, Greybeard and his wife set out for the coast with the hope of finding something better.[About the Author]: Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he has published award-winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the three-volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four-volume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He has edited many successful anthologies and has published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction ( Billion Year Spree, later revised and expanded as Trillion Year Spree). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous is Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,” which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick’s death by Steven Spielberg as A.I. Artificial Intelligence.