At school i borrowed a book from a classmate. I think the title was something like 'A Time Before Again.' The storyline goes something like this (but remember i am trying to recall a book 15 years later! 
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To begin with you think it's a fantasy book with Centaurs, Werewolves and Vampires and fantasy creatures and scribers who can write - a long forgotton skill. But it transpires that this is an apocalyptic future. There was an oil spill and scientists released a bacteria which could clean up the spill but the bacteria went out of control and ate all the worlds supply of oil. So nuclear power became the main powersource but people began to die of cancer. So geneticists went crazy and began combining DNA creating fantasy creatures like Centaurs and Unicorns.
It was a brilliant book, i know my summary makes it sound dire but it was really cleverly written and i'm sure my vague memory has distorted it and made it sound awful!! i have been trying to find it again ever since. I would be overcome with gratitude if anyone recognises it and can tell me what it was called!
)To begin with you think it's a fantasy book with Centaurs, Werewolves and Vampires and fantasy creatures and scribers who can write - a long forgotton skill. But it transpires that this is an apocalyptic future. There was an oil spill and scientists released a bacteria which could clean up the spill but the bacteria went out of control and ate all the worlds supply of oil. So nuclear power became the main powersource but people began to die of cancer. So geneticists went crazy and began combining DNA creating fantasy creatures like Centaurs and Unicorns.
It was a brilliant book, i know my summary makes it sound dire but it was really cleverly written and i'm sure my vague memory has distorted it and made it sound awful!! i have been trying to find it again ever since. I would be overcome with gratitude if anyone recognises it and can tell me what it was called!
