The strength of Nature's End is its attention to what was just beginning to happen. Strieber draws from current news stories and postulates from there. I was really drawn to its message and didn't sleep very well for a few weeks after I read it the first time.I've only read two other of Strieber's books -- Wolfen and Communion -- and, although they were interesting, they didn't have quite the same punch as this one still does. Like one reviewer says, we're about halfway between when it was writt...

No way near as good as Warday but still a good read.

I read this book when it first came out and it seemed so 'sci-fi'/futuristic back then. Now many of the technologies 'predicted' in the story are in fact available to us - cell phones that can communicate with our home pcs, digital medical records...for what was amazing back-in-the-day, we now have at our fingertips; including global warming, air and water pollution. This was a good read then and is even more meaningful 25 years after publication.Favorite quote, "Maybe if our grandparents (that

April 5, 2012: Brief review: Biospheric apocalypse ... caused by humans. I read this in the late 1980s and it scared the daylights out of me.July 24, 2021: Suddenly feel a screaming need to read this again. (Yes, "screaming." It insists on being there. I'm not a screamer. A conversation I was part of this evening, mostly as one who listened, brought Nature's End to mind. Like a scream.This summerscreams.)~ From the Online Etymology Dictionary:scream (v.)late 12c., scræmen, of uncertain origin, s...

Utterly fantastic. Though written in 1986, it manages to not once feel dated, which is apparently a big feat in sci-fi. The book follows people trying to survive in the pollution-decimated future, but the plot is so complex that the devastated future is only a backdrop. The political intrigue and fugitive-driven plot lend a feel of a thriller novel, and makes for a fast read. The myriad of inventive futuristic ideas all captivate. It's been a while since I got this into a book, and have tried to...

Loved it. One of my all time favorites in how it creates such a compelling picture of a dystopian future. This book has it all, with amazing world building, captivating characters and thrilling action scenes. Highly recommended. I've read this book several times over the past 25 years, and i'm always able to find something new and interesting to be inspired about.

I really enjoyed this. It was well written, although I did have to take emotion breaks when the prognosis got too bad. I accidentally read a chapter about a massive forest fire while watching a documentary about a massive forest fire, and fell a bit to pieces.This book is classified as fiction, but is actually a pretty convincing near future history. I now need to find something light and fluffy to read.

Chilling and eye-opening at the same time. It seems to have a small taste of George Orwell's 1984 in it, and the world built by Strieber and Kunetka is so intricate and well-described that it seems like an all-too-possible future - Perhaps not by 2025 as described, but 2125... A few segments are a bit slow to get through and certainly the first few chapters are not for the faint of heart, but if you're looking for an intense dystopia with a crazed and sadistic 'saint' on the rise and a tiny glim...

Good read! I enjoyed it. I found it interesting that the authors published the book in 1986 but had their fictional history in the book going back to the early 1980's. Most authors choose an arbitrary date in the future and remain ahead of that so that they don't have to try and be accurate. This book is obviously not meant to be a prediction of our world, but to get you thinking about our world's problems. And indeed, I find interesting parallels to Gupta Singh and modern politicians.

Slow, barely plausible start, but it got better. I actually rate this one 3.5 stars because the story is regularly interrupted by fake news stories and pages of fake "recovered" data about climate change. At about the half-way point I started skipping that stuff and just reading the meat of the story. The meat deserves a 5, but that other stuff is super distracting so I compromised on the 4 star rating.Our protagonists are trying to create a computer program that replicates the consciousness of

A powerful vision of the near future. While the book was written back in the 1980s, many facets of the book's predictions have either become or are in the process of becoming true. The book's storyline starts out with a powerful scene of the loss of a son by a father during a environmental disaster in Denver in 2024. The storyline evolves around the actions of the son while he was alive and how his actions would ultimately affect the main characters throughout the book. Perhaps the one element t...

A ridiculous book but I chose to persevere for two reasons: to see what happened and to try and work out what made this book so bad. The premise and plot had definite potential. For an apocalyptic novel it was way out there when it was published in 1986. The authors leveraged what was happening in the climate change movement to put forward a vision of planet earth that was believable, in 1986. Corporations and the elite have taken over the world - what's new? However, it wasn't far enough into t...

One of the scariest books I have ever read, and I have read a lot of scary books.

I recently finished reading Nature's End and to say I remain stunned by Whitley Streiber's eerie ability to predict the state of the Earth's environment would be an extreme understatement. Although the book was written 25 years ago, Streiber's description of the demise of the natural world is nothing short of amazing.I'm curious, albeit frightened, to know Mr. Streiber's long-term ecological outlook.

This book is really fascinating right now because we're a little more than halfway between when the book was written and when it is set. Great time to see how much of it is coming true. The title is deceptive. Although it involves all sorts of environmental catastrophes nature is not actually dying in the book. Human society is on the breaking point and the possible extinction of humans is a strong theme. The book strives for realism, and does a better job of that than most future stories. A few...

Excellent story. I do enjoy a story about the dangers of the future, especially when there is hope at the end.

Nature's End came to me about the same time I began delving into environmental issues in college. I was truly amazed by how Whitley Strieber's and James KUNETKA's (actual last name: for more accurate searches) "non-fictional fiction" drives home the consequences of our own irresponsible actions on this planet, and in such a frightening, yet entertaining way. The plot has stayed with (in) me. I've lost track of my rereads, as the predictions are disturbingly 'not all that' far-fetched. I believe

7.8 billion population in 2020Nature's end is a book that almost reads like a nonfiction. I found myself looking up places on Google maps, when speaking about a fire in the Santa Monica mountains. Supposedly it takes place in 2035, when the population is at 7 billion. John Sinclair is a journalist who has developed a program called Delta doctor. Given enough data, it becomes so like the person that is being convicted, that anyone can ask questions of it, and it will tell the truth. For example,

I really loved this book and want to read it again. This is science fiction and a commentary on environmental collapse, political corruption, journalistic oppression along with some cyberpunk details. I read it a long time ago, forgot the title and author and blindly searched around for it again at the library (they no longer keep title or borrow lists of patrons since GWBush) and found this at the thrift store (Salvation Army) some years later. I have a long reading list so I am going to wait t...

Still RelevantI first read this book back in 1992 in my Senior year of high school. Here we are 27 years later and while many of the things covered haven't come to pass this book it's still relevant today as it was break then. It's themes are universal and always will be.