What I mean by this is that it does not give you much in the way of traditional narrative. And this is where the story gets interesting and turns on itself developing splendidly.Īs it begins it is a little difficult to read, but that changes. These memories can be accessed by parasitic fungus that lurk in the deadly greenery, and they are ready to latch onto the brain of an unassuming tree-dweller. Man (or what's left of him) has forgotten his history, though the memories of his erstwhile greatness remain deeply rooted in his DNA. And in some cases, they have fused (or are controlled by) the plant life that has conquered the earth. Radiation has altered their minds and their bodies to the point where they are no longer fully human, but something different. The remnants have been forced to change and adapt to survive. Global warming has caused the world to heat-up and human civilisation to wither and die. It engages with environmental concerns, conjuring up a future that has occurred after ecological and societal collapse. Hothouse is an extremely weird novel that explores a speculative future in which the world is dominated by deadly and murderous plants.
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