Warriors of the Rainbow

by A.D. Harvey

In the tradition of H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley comes a compelling and original novel about a strange new world. A man has come out of jail to find Europe plunged into a perpetual winter. His... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582340897
• ISBN13: 9781582340890
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Captivating with some minor quibbles

I thought this book was wonderful. Arguably, the science will not be hard enough for the purists, and some of the secondary characters are a little stock. Still this was a gripping story stuffed into a hothouse of ideas. I mean who can resist: love, the end of the world, the nature of consciousness, whales, ants, AI, etc. Buy this book readers have an obligation to cultivate and support budding talent.

Good environmental science fiction story

A man is released from jail in near-future England to find that Europe has been plunged into an endless winter. While he was jailed, his girlfriend died in a mysterious epidemic. She isn't really dead; she's been brought back to life, and her body is being used as a test bed for an artificail brain. He kidnaps the creature with his girlfriend's body from the research center where it is being monitored, and they live together sort of happily while society collapses around them. One night, they are arrested by the police, but not for the usual reasons. The whales of the world have learned how to communicate with man, and have told the governments of the world to put those two on a small boat on a southwest course into the Atlantic-Or Else. The animals of the world have started to fight back against man, led by the whales, who have learned how to mess with earth's climate. This Brave-New-Worldish novel is interesting, strange, and very easy to read. Except for a feeling that the novel ended before the story did (sequel?), this one is very much worth checking out.