The Fall: Part 1

"A masterpiece of storytelling" – Goodreads.com "Brilliantly conceived … taut and chilling" – A.W Baldwin 2040: The world is burning, and hope is almost lost… As feuding trillionaires insulate themselves on sub-Antarctic islands and lobby for nation-state recognition, the eco terrorist known as Vidar pours fuel on the flames of social disintegration. Mega storms and heat wreak havoc, driving the greatest diaspora in history. America is broken. A new civil war threatens. The fate of civilization lies with the first independent president and a revolutionary AI, but then a mystery virus triggers a nuclear war. Told from multiple perspectives, The Fall takes you from the halls of power to the unforgiving streets as the world we know unravels. This is how it REALLY ends… Presented in three 80-000-word chronological parts, 'The Fall', is the first stunning installment of 'The Anthropocene Series', a speculative vision of the fate of humanity. The Anthropocene Series For 3,000 centuries the blue planet blessed us with her riches. As our civilizations rose and fell, her bounteous resources were there to seed others. But now we have outgrown her, so imposed upon her complex systems that we have earned our own unit of geological time: the Anthropocene —an era which appears destined to be short-lived. We are a fiendishly intelligent species, capable of creative genius as well as mindless destruction, are we smart enough to save ourselves? The Anthropocene Series grapples with this paradox in a speculative vision of mind-blowing scale. From feuding tech trillionaires to a teenager speaking truth to power, from a jaded FBI agent trying to regain faith in justice to a conviction politician navigating the shoals of compromise, these and other intersecting stories propel you into the near and distant future. Book 1, The Fall, tells the story of our post-truth plunge into climate disaster.