The classic science fiction novel “The Death of Grass,” in the genre of dystopia, by the famous English fantasist John Christopher depicts humankind on the brink of destruction due to a violation of the ecological balance.
The book presents one of the earliest and most vivid, and also artistically convincing, scenarios of a global ecological catastrophe caused by the death of all grass and grains on the planet. The novel was successfully adapted into a film in 1970 by director Cornel Wilde and became a kind of benchmark for dozens of later books written on the same theme.