Arthur C Clarke Award short profiles: Sarah Hall
10/03/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Sarah's Arthur C Clarke award-nominated novel, The Carhullan Army, features near-future nastiness with an overpopulated UK broken on the back of runaway climate change, living on the breadline as a Cuban-style client state of the USA - fed wheat and oil by a fascist US fundamentalist Christian junta. Buy The Carhullan Army in the USA - or Buy The Carhullan Army in the UK  Women can only give birth by winning a national lottery now, and all of the UK is very badly flooded.
The story is narrated by a girl called just 'Sister', who fondly remembers her time in a free women's commune called the Carhullan Army, while awaiting execution in a Lancaster jail by the British government.
Disease. Terrorists. Starvation. Orrrr, it's grim ooooppp North!
Think Margaret Attwood with an eco-cyberpunk edge and a dash of V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
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