I’d never heard of this book before stumbling upon it at the Strand last week. Its cover hails it as a lost classic of the atomic age and while the “lost” part seems indisputable, the “classic” descriptor is up for debate. Stephen Decatur Smith narrates his chance happening on perhaps the biggest story of the century, the fact that no new babies are being born. It seems as though a nuclear accident has rendered the male population of the world entirely sterile. Humanity’s future looks […]