All Fools' Day (1966)

✍ Scribed by Edmund Cooper

• Book ID: 112076700
• Publisher: Orion
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780575116436

✦ Synopsis

The summer of 1971 was unusually sunny for London. It was also scientifically fascinating: Sunspots emitting a new type of solar radiation suddenly appeared.

Then, unaccountably, there began a sharp rise in the suicide rate, and over the next ten years, the radiation-triggered impulse to self-destruction gradually eliminated all but the Transnormals---creative artists, eccentrics, psychopaths---those who had always lived on the fringe of organized society.

These survivors now found themselves in a depopulated world where civilization had dissolved and man had reverted to savagery...