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The last battle: The Future, by Naomi Alderman, reviewed

Sinister preparations for the apocalypse by a few Silicon Valley billionaires must be thwarted in this part-thriller, part-Big Tech critique, part-meditation on doomsday

25 November 2023

9:00 AM

25 November 2023

9:00 AM

The Future Naomi Alderman

4th Estate, pp.232, 20

The sirens sound in the street. The lockdown order comes. The images on the television are of chaos and illness, total societal collapse. The apocalypse is here, and where are the rich? Already holed up in their survival compounds, ready to ride out the end of the world before emerging to take control of what’s left of it for themselves.

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