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. 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. 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. And with his newly articulate companion he is soon on an odyssey through burnt out cities, new religions, potatoes and well-stirred gene pools. 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. Sodding magnificent, cobber.