Like Colson Whitehead's Zone One without the zombie camp and idiom, Theodore Savage is a dark, strange, and cruelly contemporary tale of The Ruin and the post-apocalyptic condition that follows. The book makes a spirited argument against science and machines, disputing itself viciously to the last word.
Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic "Miss Hamilton always writes forcibly, and her present ... Read morenovel deals with the heart shaking effects of the next war. It might, indeed, be used as a tract to convey an awful warning."
The Spectator (1922) "A particularly effective and chilling version of a theme that dominates British speculative fiction between the wars."
Anatomy of Wonder, Neil Barron, ed. "Hamilton is one of the first
and among the darkest
of those UK novelists whose vision of things was shaped by WWI, which they saw as foretelling the end of civilization." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Clute and Nicholls, eds. Show Less