Greg van Eekhout - As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppress...

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As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.

Greg van Eekhout

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Als Kind musste ich nicht überzeugt werden, dass die Zukunft Gefahren und Unterdrückung versprach. Als ich anfing, mir den Science-Fiction-Roman der mittleren Klassenstufe, der zu "Der Junge am Ende der Welt" wurde, zu überlegen, schien das nur natürlich Bauen Sie die Geschichte um eine dunkle Zukunftsvision. In meinem Buch hat sich die Zivilisation fast selbst zerstört.

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