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Title: I gave up about 100 pages in...
Review: ...and you shouldn't pick this one up. I don't mind the political bias of the text (as some reviewers apparently did), I just hate being told I'm being told a story. I lost count of the number of times the narrative ground to a halt to say that more plagues were going to strike; it would have been a much better work if the author had merely described the striking of said plagues. If you're set on reading an ecological disaster story, "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up" by John Brunner are infinitely superior to this, and also out of print. Good luck finding them.
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