Twenty-five years ago the causes and consequences of global warming
began to concern Science Fiction author J. Chandler Nash. He never
imagined that he would live to see the catastrophic results
beginning to play out in his lifetime: radical weather, devastating
fires of global consequence, food shortages, rapid planetary
deforestation, and accelerating rates of extinctions. Far greater
than any science fiction scenario, it is this unimaginable threat
largely unaddressed by world governments that prompted him to write
The Dying Planet. Set in the not too distant future, a monumental
catastrophe looms over planet Earth unknown to its few surviving
inhabitants. All technology and social order has long since
vanished in a world devastated by severe drought and unpredictable
killer storms. Three isolated groups, remnants of a tattered
humanity, try to make a life for themselves while struggling
against lawless predators and a fiercely hostile climate. Scout
Clayton Smith, settles his tiny wandering band by a shrinking lake
in the Sierras. Tensions mount as they build a new order for
themselves, until they are suddenly confronted by a threat that
would rob them of their resources, their freedom, and their lives.
Little by little they pull together to persevere, but they are
never entirely free of the evil that stalks them. A young drifter,
Vince Corning, finally finds his place in a small river community,
and meets the love of his life, the beautiful Carmen. Held together
by the iron fist of Carmen's stepfather, Skeeter Jones, the
community persists in a quest for resources that spares no one.
Jones, who holds a bitter grudge against Corning, goes head to head
with him in a struggle that lands Vince on the wrong side of the
law. After losing a horrific battle to defend the last of their
black gold, two ex-roughnecks, Gardner Wells and Carter Singleton,
are reduced to a miserable life as sneak thieves in order to fend
off starvation on the parched tundra of the far north. Only their
wits can save them. Against the background of a life and death
struggle facing the survivors, a saga of love, loss, and life
renewed plays out beyond all odds. Will they survive what a global
system, long forgotten and drastically out of balance, has in store
for them?
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