The Death of Grass (John Christopher)

Excellent and genuinely terrifying, the speeded up fall into chaos may be a wee bit excessive and unrealistic but they do say society is only a few meals away from barbarism. A very pessimistic book that is years ahead of its time in its description of environmental catastrophe.

Interesting that we should have read this in the same year as "The Windup Girl" which is very much one of the the first great dystopian novels of the global warming era.

A very insightful book about man's overdependance on monocultured crop plants! I found the gradual fall of civilization much more interesting that the main character's journey to barbarity, finding some of the choices the main character makes difficult to understand. The last half of the book becomes a much more traditional post apocalyptic book, and I think somehow weaker because of it