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London
by kevanman
Flooded London - Credit:
Sarah
A post-apocalyptic London is at the dark heart of the book. It is echoed in the history of the Twentieth Century and in popular culture. It shares a similarly nightmarish aesthetic to Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Road – an uber-bleak novel depicting a burnt America, the result, as in Jefferies' novel, of an unspecified catastrophe, which has resulted in 'the fragility of everything revealed at last'.
Jefferies' London is also echoed in Ridley Scott's haunting vision of a dystopian future, Blade Runner (1982) – based upon Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – particularly in the opening sequence.