Climate change is a real concern and it does provide fodder for some great fiction. Read an excerpt from the science fiction A Climate of Revenge by Tom Riley and then follow the tour for more. Best of luck entering the giveaway!
Sarah and JanetM, are a human/Artificial Intelligence pair who do private investigations in the near future where our climate crisis has hit and hit hard. A man with a long dark history tries to hire them but is then killed. His family hires the team to find who killed this man with a thousand enemies in a land with a million problems.
The United Nations IPCC report, “Climate Change 2022, Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability contains:
C5.3 Enhancing knowledge
A wide range of … processes … can deepen climate knowledge and sharing, including … using the arts … (high confidence).
This can only be read as a clarion call for writers to produce the works that will help our people cope.
Read an excerpt:
Q & A
“I think we still have time for a few questions and answers,” said the chairperson, “You will find a microphone over to the side. Please say who your question is for.”
Most of the audience were still there and people quickly queued up.
“Question time, question time, question time,” sang JanetM in Sarah’s ear.
“This one is for Sarah. Why did you not take the case when you were first asked?”
“It was clear to me that Mr. Winestead had a hidden agenda,” said Sarah. “The story he gave me struck me as a complete fabrication. To work for someone you have to have some level of trust. We had not established that trust. He really did think he was in danger and was interviewing investigators to choose one to have available if he were attacked. Had he said that clearly, then things might have turned out quite differently, but that was not the story he chose to tell. He was a paranoid man who had made detailed plans all his life and he was making another, just in case something bad happened.”
“This one is for you both. How do you like being a human/AI pair?”
“We are way past liking,” said Sarah. “We now are who we are and who we are is who you see. I would not change our relationship for the world, but that does not matter, we cannot go back in time, and I would not if I could.
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Tom Riley will be awarding a PDF file of "Writer's Guide to Our Climate Crisis" (International) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteThank you for featuring my new book, “A Climate of Revenge”.
ReplyDeleteIt tries to work up what we need to tell our young people about our climate crisis, and how we can be best tell them? Please let me know what you think.
The Writer’s Aid is to help people developing their skills in creative writing so that they can set stories in the near future when our climate crisis will have hit and hit hard. Email me for a free copy in .PDF.
Enjoy, Tom Riley, TomRiley@bigmoondig.com