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Jan 1, 2001 · Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult.
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Mar 4, 1993 · Sometime in 1995—records the divorced, bereaved, ineffectual historian/ diarist Theodore Faron—the worldwide sperm count reached zero with the birth of one Joseph Ricardo, last of the Omega generation. Now, in 2021, graying England is frozen in a lifeless nightmare.
Oct 19, 2016 · A strongman named Xan Lyppiatt, Theo’s cousin and boyhood playmate, rules England as Warden and keeps a tight lid on unrest while also closely monitoring women of what used to be child-bearing age, just in case.
With such swift strokes P. D. James establishes the central premise of her new novel, "The Children of Men." There follow two worthy adventures for Miss James, for her protagonist and for the...
The Children of Men is a dystopian novel by English writer P. D. James, published in 1992. Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility. James describes a United Kingdom that is steadily depopulating and focuses on a small group of resisters who do not share the disillusionment of the masses.
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- 1992
Nov 1, 2021 · P. D. James’s Still-Haunting Vision in 'Children of Men' | National Review. After nearly three decades, how does this modern classic of dystopian literature hold up?
Andrew Briggs, Physicist. Set in a near-future (this time, in England), in which the entire population has been rendered infertile, this dystopian classic also explores themes of human reproduction and political dissidence.
