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We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). It sparks fascinating conversations with allegorical classics like Albert Camus’s The Plague as well as recent speculative fiction rediscoveries like Kay Dick’s They, Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men, and Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall– not to mention a setting reminiscentof Kazuo Ishiguro's eerie country estates. But as the numbers - and desperation - of external survivors increase, admist this moral fallout, they must decide what it means to forge a new ethical code at the end (or beginning?
It would make a really good book to study in relation to dystopia and apocalyptic fiction in the 20th century and I’m also glad I have now read something translated from Danish. Termush bifurcates between those fighting the entropic tides that wash at its shores and those who go through the rhythms of ordinary life.By booking one of its premier survival packages, guests will receive an exclusive Termush radiation suit and personal doseometer. When brandy and sedatives fail and violence and death follow, the survivors of Termush soon learn that money doesn’t provide as much insulation as it did in the Before Times. It’s a fun phase where you have the idea down but you can still explore and push it, trying to maximise the impact.
From its opening page, Termush is a creepy and enigmatic masterpiece, setting a tone of weird paranoia that drags the reader headlong into a wonderfully realised post-apocalyptic world. They bask in radiation shelters, eating lavish meals to a soundtrack of ambient music, embarking on tourist day trips. The chairman with “his powerful obstinacy, his primitive blend of cunning and stupidity attracts supporters to rally behind him” in limiting what the guests should know (44).Airports, road traffic systems, hospitals, schools, underwater cables, financial markets and media are all targets.