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‘The Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money' — rereading Ben Elton’s Stark as prophecy

  • Written by Colin Yeo, Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
‘The Earth was dying. Killed by the pursuit of money' — rereading Ben Elton’s Stark as prophecyThe New York Public Library, CC BY

In a year that began during one of the worst bushfire seasons in living memory and then saw a global pandemic take hold, rereading Ben Elton’s Stark offers an eerily prescient window into 2020 as the end of the world.

First published in 1989, Elton’s debut novel offered a doubly prophetic vision....

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