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After sleeping rough, Hare is befriended by a community of so-called
marginals who live in anarchic communes on the fringes of society.
After recuperating, Hare decides to search for his estranged wife, an
artist who fled mainstream society after the government closed all art
colleges. He encounters another group, known as Diggers , who live in
abandoned subterranean chambers that were originally intended for use in
the event of nuclear war.
A group of young Diggers attempt to seize their own plot of land, but
the attempt is a failure, and Hare is obliged to lead a group of fleeing
marginals and Diggers into the Zone , a mysterious patch of land
where, it is rumoured, nothing is able to survive. I> is set in a
dystopian version of Britain that is similar in its depiction of a grey,
shabby, philistine country, to Orwell s 1984. The principal character
Hare, is a clerk for a vast conglomerate known as Universal Goods, who
is dismissed from his job and his lodgings after his corrupt boss,
Jacobs, manipulates evidence against him.
The War Against Chaos< >
After sleeping rough, Hare is befriended by a community of so-called
marginals who live in anarchic communes on the fringes of society.
After recuperating, Hare decides to search for his estranged wife, an
artist who fled mainstream society after the government closed all art
colleges. He encounters another group, known as Diggers , who live in
abandoned subterranean chambers that were originally intended for use in
the event of nuclear war.
A group of young Diggers attempt to seize their own plot of land, but
the attempt is a failure, and Hare is obliged to lead a group of fleeing
marginals and Diggers into the Zone , a mysterious patch of land
where, it is rumoured, nothing is able to survive. I> is set in a
dystopian version of Britain that is similar in its depiction of a grey,
shabby, philistine country, to Orwell s 1984. The principal character
Hare, is a clerk for a vast conglomerate known as Universal Goods, who
is dismissed from his job and his lodgings after his corrupt boss,
Jacobs, manipulates evidence against him.
The War Against Chaos<
