And the Waters Prevailed
By John Litchen
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increasingly wild weather, violent storms, and massive floods are symptoms of the world struggling to reach equilibrium with global warming.
located in an un-named city, harold, an elderly man is convinced radical change is upon us and decides to build a boat in his front yard. the amusement of neighbours and opposition of his wife does not faze him or dint his determination to succeed. joe, a stringer for global tv news netweorks travels widely, reporting on increasingly extreme weather events. ultimately he returns home as the worst weather in history brings on massive flooding, drowning his and harold's city, along with every other coastal city in the world.
harold's and joe's stories come together in a conclusion that is a thrilling and timely warning of the overwhelming possibilities we can expect from climate change and global warming.
John Litchen
John was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1940, and lived there until 1995, after which he moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland. At one stage a keen underwater photographer John wrote the book Cinematography Underwater for Australian Sports Publications as well as contibuted articles to Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic and Skindiving in Australia. Also a percussionist who was fascinated by Afro-Cuban percussion, John played conga and timbales, bongo and other small percussion, and instructed at workshops sponsored by the Victorian Percussion Society. He took up the art of Aikido in 1990 and has studied this martial art since then, also writing an instruction book called Aikido-Basic and Intermediate Studies. He has written two volumes of memoirs, Fragments from A LIfe (translated into Greek, which won the Agelidis Foundation's 1st prize in 2007), and a follow up volume called Fragments that Remain, as well as a short volume of articles about writing called Attributes a Writer Needs. He has written articles and short stories for various magazines including articles for Aikido Today Magazine and Bujutsu INternational. And The Waters Prevailed is his first full length novel. He is a member of the Gold Coast Writers Association and the Queensland Writers Centre.
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