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His new novel, Toward the End of Time , takes place in a futuristic Massachusetts in which nuclear war has leveled half of civilization, strange new metallic animals are threatening to gobble mankind, government has collapsed, and a gangsterish network of uniformed thugs called (chillingly) FedEx is establishing a government network of its own.
The consolation for all this lay at the bottom of the box: hope, the precious quality that would help mankind through it all.
At its weirdest, it's a diatribe shot through with millennial overtones, so that its reach is much larger than just the environment--it's about the ultimate doom of mankind, or something like that.
And that's an adventure that mankind could actually use.
In the Times , columnist William Rees-Mogg wrote: "Last January Bill Gates was still generally seen as a benefactor of mankind, who had developed new and efficient software to spread the advance of electronic communications.