Future Eden - The Book

The Book

Future Eden the book was published in January 2000 in the U.K and Australia as a paperback. It was published as a hardback in the U.S. in September 2000. It has also been published in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. I think there is also a German publisher looking at it.
It has now gone out of print in the English language - though you should still be able to find copies in some book shops.

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Reviews
Reviews Amazon.co.uk
Subtitled A Brief History of Next Time, Colin Thompson's deliriously inventive Future Eden is full of the sort of fractured and quirky satirical SF that has become almost a self-contained genre. But can Thompson cut it in the mad universe of Douglas Adams and Co.? This tale of future history and chickens has all the pizzazz and cutting-edge wit of the masters of the genre, and even justifies all the cod blurbs that the publisher had emblazoned over the jacket.

Everything is grinding to a halt in the Earth of the year 2287. People muddle by as society collapses about their ears, some more capably than others. Thompson's hero Jay is finding it a struggle, and since the day his parents vanished he has been fending for himself in a world where many are prepared to kill to maintain what little they have.

Jay makes the decision to leave his home and see just how spectacularly society is collapsing, announcing to his pet chicken (his only link to his lost past), "It's time to go, man". But when the chicken replies, "Ok", Jay finds he has more to cope with than the fire about to consume his building. And with his newly articulate companion he is soon on an odyssey through burnt out cities, new religions, potatoes and well-stirred gene pools. And then he encounters the beguiling Ethel...

Thompson's dialogue always has the correct demented edge:

When The Oracle arrived on earth a few thousand years ago, she chose a woman's body--not a frightfully clever thing to do. She assumed that as women were the most level-headed creatures on the planet, they'd sort of be in charge. But when the first body wore out, The Oracle decided to try another species, and since then she has been working her way through every living creature on the planet and at the moment The Oracle is a fish.

--Barry Forshaw

A reader from Queensland, Australia , 16 October, 2000
Sodding magnificent, cobber.
"Future Eden" is one of those brilliant, elusive novels that you probably only ever find once in a lifetime, possibly with the last ten pages ripped out accordingly. It's wondrous. My condolences to those like Douglas Adams and the Red Dwarf writers who've been classically outranked. It's only the first of five I am to assume, so it allows you to be ineffably lost in the suspense of the sequel. Can't bleedin' wait, cobber, eh?

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Here are the Danish and the Swedish editions of Future Eden 1. As you can see Denmark did a different cover.

IS THIS PATHETIC OR WHAT?

Look at the cover on the right. Can you spot the difference from the real cover at the top of the page? Well this is the original design for the cover which included a can of a famous product which of course I can't mention. But mention it I did in the book, in fact I not only mentioned it, I said it was the single greatest invention of the 20th century. The manufacturers of the product said that we couldn't use it on our cover as it was bad for their image. Yeah right, a can of stuff to free sticky parts has an image? I will of course be sending these need-to-get-a-life people regular sales figures of the book. I have blanked out the maker's name on the can so no one can guess what it is. No matter how clever you were you WOULD never guess what it was, even in 140 years.