Last Gasp

by Trevor Hoyle

Book Overview

The Last Gasp. environmental dissaster has begun as a team of desperate scientist races to avert total extinction, a novel by Trevor Holye, 1983 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517550849
• ISBN13: 9780517550847
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Prophetic Book?

The author was very visionary considering that global warming wasn't even an issue at the time this book was published. Unlike Holywood (no that's not a typo), the author spreads the story out over enough time to make it realistic. And still manages to make the story interesting to the end. The only thing I would have done differently myself was the ending, but it does fit into the story line very neatly. If anyone is curious about the various ways that climate change will affect our planet should read this book. I won't say it's all there, but what is there has been carefully researched. A changed political climate has an effect on the plot today, but it's still an incredible read. A very strong sleeper among books. If it had been published a decade later, it would most likely have already made it to the screen.

Very relevant to 2007

I read this book in the 80s when it was published and it also gave me the chills. This book is very relevant to today as we experience more climatic changes and I thought of this book when I read a series in the Los Angeles Times last summer concerning our sick oceans. The link is posted below. I believe that anybody who has concerns about the environment should read this book, even though it is fictional. [...]

a life-changing read! (at least for me)

I first read this book almost 20 years ago, and every time I think about it, I get the chills. So many of the issues Mr. Hoyle addressed (even though fictionalised) have come to pass. I have seen in my life time the world change -- climate wise, geographically, etc. This book made me aware of the environment, and brought home to me just how destructive and selfish mankind can be in its blind pursuit of progress and exploitation of natural resources. Any one who reads this will go to bed every night with a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. Why? Because the fiction in the book is becoming fact in our lifetime today...

a must read book for serious si fi buffs

trevor hoyle has asked some very serious enviro questions which seem to be more in the line of prediction or long term forecasting. A really thought provoking bit of fiction with a bit of everything. From still relevant enviro issues and info tech society to socio economic questions that the whole of the global village will ultimately have to face. A truly great book.