Ectopia

By: Martin Goodman

Narrated by: Daniel Hird, Emma Tierney

A dystopian novel set around London’s disused Heathrow Airport.

For 16 years, the Earth has baked, and no girls have been born. Karen is the last girl. Steven is her gay twin. Dad turns their home into a fortress as women take their chance to rule the world. Their eyes are on Steven.

Perhaps, with a little medical interference, he could be the savior of the world. The boys of teensquad run the streets, insects clog the skies, the last chance to save the world is handed to a council of women, and scientists are cooking up a brand new Eden.

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Stunning in every sense of the word

Brutal and graphic, Ectopia finds poetic beauty amidst a horrific future world already collapsing in on itself. Not your average apocalypse tale, it explores the depth of personal emotional response to living without a future. Not an easy read but worth the trip. (This book is Not for everyone and should come with trigger warnings for language, violence and sexual themes.)