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NOW AND THEN

Pop life begins at 40

he year is 2124 and humankind survives on a scorched Earth. The sun it burns and the rivers run dry. Men in futuristic bondage gear roam an apocalyptic landscape in clapped-out cars, shooting each other with crossbows over the last dregs of a bottle of Highland Spring. There are robots. Bad robots. Nobody can figure out where it all went wrong. And yet one unalterable truth remains – one unblinking beacon of hope and certainty in a strange and hostile world. Aunt Pat still gets you CD for Christmas. And a Terry’s Chocolate Orange.

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