New Books in Science Fiction — Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)

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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)

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In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Jeremy Tuft is a physics instructor and former artillery officer who is cryogenically frozen in his…

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