However, the British Prime Minister quickly steps down and Cabinet Member Raymond Welling takes his place, with one of his first moves being to orchestrate a plan to bomb all of the major UK cities in order to limit the amount of strain put on the nation’s swiftly depleting food supplies. The British government insists that it has everything under control. The virus continues to spread west, mutating as it goes, until the fifth strain of the virus hits the UK.Ī counter-virus is quickly established, in a vain hope of killing off the Chung-Li virus. Massive famine resulting from the complete destruction of the Far East’s rice fields has left an estimated 200 million Chinese citizens either dead or dying. The novel was renamed ‘No Blade Of Grass’ for the US publication.Ī highly contagious rice virus dubbed ‘The Chung-Li Virus’ has brought China to its knees. The book was also a runner-up for the International Fantasy Award in 1957. The novel has since become a Penguin Modern Classic, receiving worldwide success and being dubbed a masterpiece in post-apocalyptic fiction. First published back in 1956, British author John Christopher’s (the pseudonym adopted by Christopher Samuel Youd) third published novel ‘The Death Of Grass’ was the first of a number of tales written by the author that delved into a post-apocalyptic premise.
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