George Adams

** spoiler alert ** Newly reread in the midst of Covid-19's pandemic. The threat unwinds at a glacial pace over the course of years. Any hope of an appropriate response to the threat is undermined by the inability of the human race to come to grips with a reality not to their liking. The worse it gets, the further they descend into wishful thinking. The inevitable outcome, though patently obvious for some time before, comes as a great surprise. The style and the protagonist's patriarchal attitudes are dated and at times painful but Wyndham's perception of human nature is being painfully reflected on the current global stage that is Covid-19 2020.