The lack of bees – one of the main divergent points between our reality and the book’s – is occasionally shown to have larger ramifications, but while a world without bees is also a world without heroin, and a world where farming is struggling to provide enough food, this isn’t a book about people trying to directly solve those problems, or indeed, engage with them much at all. Those elements are there, but they’re not the focus at all. Indeed, conventional plots have been increasingly ignored by Coupland’s later work, so if you’re looking for an in-depth sci-fi exploration, you’ll be disappointed. But that’s not really the plot – merely the events around which Coupland’s expert storytelling hangs. The story is set in a near future where bees have been wiped out, and quickly receives a modern day Charlie And The Chocolate Factory twist as the cast members all find themselves plucked from obscurity when they are the lucky recipients of the first bee stings to occur in years.
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