The Genocides
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"The Genocides" is a science fiction novel written by Thomas M. Disch. In this novel is described the extermination of the humans by the intervention aliens who are apparently using the Earth to grow plants. This plants are described as huge and very efficient and that they grow very fast.
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But the consequences of their grow are that soil becames barren for any other crop or tree. Also this plants are unsuitable for feeding any animal (except perhaps the rabbits which appear to be very numerous in the book), bringing a catastrophe to the ecosystem. The effects on the humans are very drastic: humans society breaks, with people no person longer living in cities. The action of the novel is centered in a small group of people who still harvest some corn and have only one pregnant cow. The leader of this group is someway a religious fanatic who kills every other stranger in the name of the survival of the group. This already hard life fighting against plants and protecting the small crop changes suddenly when an outsider begins living with this group bringing news of strange forest fires. The fires are started by some alien machines (presumably from the same civilization that sent the seeds of the plants) and finally destroy the refugee of the group forcing them to escape into a cave. They then go deep underground living eating some kind of fruit of the plant found there. Finally a dispute over power splits the group and most of them disappear or die. Four persons try to reach ground and two of them get it, assuming now a role of new Adam and Eve but the book finishes declaring that finally no one will survive.
