What People Say

“This is the most powerful and important book I have read in years. It is simply brilliant. The writing is searingly vivid, and it is a compulsive read.  Kingsnorth is unflinching in his keen-eyed gaze, and the message is chilling: but he is also inspiring in his determination that we must survive, and he points the way to what ultimately matters.  This book should be required reading not only for politicians, technocrats, teachers and all who help shape our world, but for every still-living soul in this terrifying age of the Machine.”

- Iain McGilchrist

“Kingsnorth has done something extraordinary: he has captured the spiritual crisis of our time in language so compelling I could not put the book down. The vision he paints is a bleak one: a post-human, machinic future. But as long as our world still has space for voices this vivid, I dare hope we have not yet succumbed to the Machine.”

- Mary Harrington

“Something in our common life has long seemed bewildering, even ominous, and Paul Kingsnorth makes it finally clear what we're up against. The gears clanking around us are not working at random, but with increasingly inhuman intent. Now I see what I must do. Now I understand.”

- Frederica Mathewes-Green