Tim's nose in a book reviewed The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray
A few million years before Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
3 stars
Hothouse by Brian Aldiss is a sci-fi/fantasy novel set a few million years in the future when the Earth has stopped rotating leaving one side permanently facing the sun while the other side is frozen cold. What if the Earth stopped rotating a bit sooner, like about now?
The physics are handled well, though the cause of The Slow, and The Stop, are not explained. Instead the affects and people's reactions drive the plot along. Lucky Britain is left facing the sun, obliquely, so can still generate solar power and grow crops. The rest of the planet is not fairing so well and Britain has used its island nature to insulate itself during the chaos, and revived the "blitz" spirit of the 1940s. The authoritarian government has a devistating plan to revive the British Empire!
