The Dying Planet
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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 Carmens 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?
J. Chandler Nash
Science Fiction author J. Chandler Nash (The Astra Empire Trilogy, Racing Against Time) holds an advanced degree in History from the University of Torcuato Tella, Argentina. A world traveler and lecturer on Polynesian Culture, and Maya Civilization of the Eastern Central Pacific coast, Nash has received recognition for his advanced theory of early linguistic cross-cultural influences among indigenous peoples of the Pacific Rim. Twenty-five years ago the causes and consequences of global warming began to concern Nash, who has since made it the focus of his research. 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. Nash, age 72, lives alone in Hawi, Hawaii, the big island, with his two cats, Annie and Biskit, and his “little mutt of a dog”, Nipper. Nash has two adult daughters who live on the mainland, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. When he isn’t writing, he paints landscapes of the north coast of Hawaii, which has held a fascination for him since his first visit in 1948. Nash is currently writing a nonfiction book on Polynesian Culture.
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