The Burning Years by Felicity Harley
The right mix of onerous science and imaginative fiction.
As the cruel realities of local weather change change into extra obvious yearly, readers are positive to be drawn to groundbreaking tales like Felicity Harley’s debut science fiction novel, The Burning Years.
The primary in a five-book sequence, The Burning Years gives the proper mix of onerous science and imaginative fiction in its portrayal of a not-so-distant future devastated by local weather change — and the passionate people preventing to maintain humanity alive.
A Harsh But Sensible Future
The world has modified drastically by the 12 months 2060 due to the unchecked energy and greed of the elite few. The Burning Years had been a time of harsh modifications to Earth’s floor — when the world was stripped of its drinkable water and huge expanses of land had been left dry and uninhabitable.
Since then, the remnants of human civilization — led by an unjust plutocracy — have moved into expansive (but remoted) underground communities. Now, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than the air aboveground turns into unbreathable. However due to the actions of 1 prime scientist, the world has an opportunity to finally get well.
Preventing for Future Generations
After Sophie dismantles the world’s climate modification program in an try to cease its dangerous impacts on the environment, she and her husband Peter flee along with his extremely sought-after creations — the primary profitable female and male cyborgs (known as trans-humans). However the elite rulers will cease at nothing to get Inanna and Rajeev again, for they maintain the secrets and techniques to humanity’s future.
In the meantime, Captain Rachel Chen and her workforce of 200 civilians and scientists information the worldship Persephone to Proxima Centauri on a mission to discover a new world for the remnants of the human race. What’s going to they discover on their journey, and can they be capable of construct a greater world than the one they left behind?
Insightful and Thought-Upsetting
The Burning Years boasts a novel and daring imaginative and prescient of humanity’s future, revealing each the nice and the unhealthy.
Writer Felicity Harley paints a devastating and heart-wrenching image of the world if one thing doesn’t change — particularly, if we don’t stand as much as the unchecked company greed that’s driving local weather change. But the modern options she portrays are fascinating and effectively thought out, answering questions readers could have about how humanity may proceed after we’ve destroyed our planet.
Whether or not our future lies underground or within the stars, Harley believes humanity’s future is value preventing for. Her in-depth characters and their interactions with one another reveal the innate goodness discovered when collaborative survival is positioned over particular person development.
Extra to Are available Visionary Sci-Fi Collection
Readers are positive to change into enthralled with the creator’s visionary future — and don’t fear, she’s promised the story will proceed in Homo Deus. The second guide will observe acquainted characters of their search to discover a supply of vitality that can enable them to as soon as once more dwell on Earth’s floor. Get a sneak peek of Homo Deus on the creator’s web site.
With all its spectacular sci-fi expertise and expansive world-building, at its core, The Burning Years is concerning the individuals — their braveness and their sacrifices, and what they’re keen to do to ensure future generations nonetheless have a world to name house.
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About Felicity Harley:
Felicity Harley’s work seems within the anthology Gathered Mild – On the Poetry of Joni Mitchell, alongside writers like Wally Lamb. She received the Anita McAndrews Award from Poets for Human Rights in honor of the Common Declaration of Human Rights’ sixty fifth anniversary. In 2014, she was commissioned by Hartbeat Ensemble to put in writing the play Transplant. Her brief story assortment Portraits and Landscapes (2015) is on the market on Amazon. She not too long ago accomplished the sci-fi sequence Till This Final, with the primary guide, The Burning Years, revealed in July 2024.
Felicity spends summers and falls in Connecticut and winters in Bequia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. She co-founded a Group Basis with Karen Hinds, supporting native nonprofits serving the island’s inhabitants.
Publish Date: 4/26/2024
Style: Science Fiction
Writer: Felicity Harley
Web page Rely: 208 pages
Writer: APS Publishing
ISBN: 9798227152848