He guessed they had been aiming the bottles at the stained glass windows, but as far as he could see in the dark they had missed. Screenwriter: Bernd Schwamm (Novel: John Christopher). It focuses on the loneliness of the main character, Neil, as the people around him die off en masse. Empty World Empty World, John Christopher When the silence had come back, Neil walked along to the east front of the church. Empty World (TV) is a film directed by Wolfgang Panzer with Tilman Schaich, Beatrice Dossi. Empty World puts forth its own subtle spin on the post apocalyptic genre. There he finds a strange world of fear and suspicion, where friends can be enemies and people will do anything to survive. Book Review: Empty World by John Christopher. The sickness is a strange one, affecting only the adults and none of the children, and soon Neil finds himself an orphan once more.Īlone, Neil travels to London in search of other survivors of the plague. After killing thousands of people in India in just a few months, the disease begins to spread much farther, quickly sweeping across the world and eventually settling in the same village where Neil resides. Soon, a devastating illness, the Calcutta Plague, begins making the headlines. He is sent to live in a small village with his grandparents, whom he loves but doesn’t really know. Neil’s world is shattered when he and his family are involved in a horrible car accident that leaves him an orphan. When Neil survives a deadly plague and plunges into solitude, he must question everything in this gripping adventure from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.
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