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All Fools' Day

Edmund Cooper (1966)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG-13
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The summer of 1971 was unusually sunny for London. It was also scientifically fascinating: Sunspots emitting a new type of solar radiation suddenly appeared. Then, unaccountably, there began a sharp rise in the suicide rate, and over the next ten years, the radiation-triggered impulse to self-destruction gradually eliminated all but the Transnormals---creative artists, eccentrics, psychopaths---those who had always lived on the fringe of organized society. These survivors now found themselves in a depopulated world where civilization had dissolved and man had reverted to savagery...