Clifi Stories

The Neon Dawn exploded and took with it the most basic elements of humanity. Only a few survived the explosions, fewer still the mutations and those who did were the privileged few. Undeserving, greedy and corrupt, they created more devastation than any of the beasts that followed.

'It's a bad idea to burn your ancestors' Jasper is Bone Boy, an obsessive fossil hunter. He unearths a spectacular Jurassic 'Dragon Fish' fossil which befriends him in the spirit world. Bone Boy discovers that The 'Grand Council of Fossil Elders' has declared war on the Human Race. Why? Because we humans are extracting and burning Oil. Oil is a 'fossil fuel' the sacred Black Blood of our fossil ancestors. As the Fossil Wars commence Bone Boy and Sky Girl, his courageous girlfriend, must outwit the Raptor War Lord. The entire future of the human race now depends on their success. Bone Boy and Sky Girl will be pushed to the edge and change the way we live, forever. Amazing illustrations by Matthew Ingram. alias@hollowearth.org

A lover's explanation of her choice

In 2043, the rainfall started...and it has not stopped. London lays on the brink of collapse as the Overcasts tighten their grip on the sinking city. After being left to fend for themselves, Finn, Mim, Jeero, and Lena are thrust onto an overcrowded Spillship. Here, they are confronted with the realities of their new drowning world, where thousands have turned to religious extremism. As their lives intertwine, the teens navigate love, friendship, and loyalty, forging fragile bonds and discovering what they are truly capable of. When whispers of a movement dedicated to stopping the rain echo through the ship, they embark on a daring quest for freedom. Under the constant watch of the electric eagles, they face treacherous waters and internal enemies, risking everything to join the resistance.

Nature is under control in 2185 and so is Poll Tander. Poll's scheme to escape her dreary life has failed. However, finding herself lost at sea is the least of her concerns when she realises her tattoo has mysteriously transformed. Once ashore in a strange land, she comes across the charismatic Dante and his dodgy companion, Marco. Together they embark on an adventure through the Italian countryside of Colony Seven. As she searches for the truth behind her past and the secretive World Union State, she might come to wish she'd never asked. Completed word count approx 51, 000 - Wattpad original - Inspired by and included in @justwriteitprompts (mystery/thriller reading list) Featured in @newlywrittenbooks Adventure reading list April 2023 Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered February 2022 Included in @ScienceFiction (dystopian/apocalyptic reading list)

BINARIUS, A TALE OF VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR, AND THOSE WHO INEVITABLY -- ARE BOTH. Somewhere beneath, within, outside the timelines of the cosmos, a planet has been tactically infected with poison. For this reason, Firinne lives with constant anxiety. She remembers a time when she was normal; before The Blacken came. Seemingly overnight, she is faced with betrayal, forcing her to abandon Citrine. What she finds is a world gone mad. Hunted by her betrayer and packs of mechanical creatures - she finds a ruin that lights up the sky, and an electric orphan who hides in the shadows. Together, they discover a prophecy that could ensure the survival of their planet - if they can manage to stay alive. The end of The Blacken might be near, but sometimes endings are disguised as new beginnings -- and some endings last forever.

#1 in clifi (climate change fiction) July 2020. Ben and Per may not be planning a return to Esperance but problems among the Elite force events down unforeseen pathways. There are rats everywhere, even in the Spires and if you corner them they'll fight back. Essandra is not going to be the plaything of sick old men and she'll do anything to save her lover's life. Even murder her own Grandfather if she has to but she might just have a better solution provided she can get the right help. Asken Verde is cynical and shrewd, he has to be to keep his job as the City's Administrator but he has a secret passion; an efficient and thriving City. There's one problem - the Elite and their greed; there's a second which is that his colleagues all want his position. When circumstances bring 'Uncle' Varlon Esta into his life he finds himself planning a revolution. Ben and Per are dragged back into the affairs of Esperance because 'Uncle' Var does not take 'No' for an answer.

TWO DEAD CLIMATOLOGISTS When eminent climatologist Dr Dale Stanton - in the process of studying the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation - is found dead in his London apartment, environmental lawyer Robert Spire is given the task to administer a large legacy left to global warming organisations. The job should have been straightforward, until a second climatologist, Dr Jack Bannister drops dead on the other side of the Atlantic. AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY Spire's client - suspicious of her son's death - asks him to travel to San Francisco to investigate Dr Jack Bannister's death. Whilst there, he meets French Climatologist Professor Francois Trimaud who is working on a geoengineering project to seed the Arctic Ocean with an experimental substance - the aim, to prevent, or at least slow the Arctic's melting ice. Spire soon discovers that someone has other plans for the region and wants the climatologists dead at all costs. A LOOMING ECOLOGICAL DISASTER As evidence of increased glacial melt in Greenland and reduction in the Arctic ice mounts, Spire becomes determined to join Trimaud on the research vessel, Mercure Blanc on a joint US/French expedition to the Arctic. He soon finds however, that the lives of all on board are in peril as he discovers a plan that threatens to push the Arctic to its tipping point and the Earth to disaster...

This book does not aim to be strictly a novel, nor an essay: it is an interstitial exploration between speculative reflection and conceptual fiction, where each term and each "reflection/fiction" scene puts forth hypotheses about the future of humanity in an age of technical symbiosis. It carries the critical clarity of someone who can no longer remain silent. It exposes uncomfortable truths that, while recognizable, seem impossible to reverse.

The start of each day can be a challenge on the Red Planet, as Ally knows. High temperatures mean the death index is ten minutes in the shade and her favorite hang-out, the local recreation center, is closed. Mom is serving roach paste for breakfast. However, there is an interesting new boy at school, if she can capture his attention before her friend Mia does. Donning her heatsuit, Ally heads off through the sand dunes for another day of classes on the Red Planet.

Winter is not coming - winter is here! In the near future, climate changes have led to short-term extreme weather conditions. Cities that have never been covered in snow now resemble Nordic countries. The situation is slowly getting out of control as the system collapses. Trees are disappearing, food is running out. Citizens are becoming desperate, axes invaluable.

Simone's dreams always come true, but not in the good way. This time she dreams climate change ruins the world. But she can save it. All she needs to do is find true love...and get the President to do so too. Between that, school, therapy, and making up for a death she's responsible for, it's not going to be easy. But if she doesn't...time's up for all of us.

The first book in the Percipience series 2022, revolves around a world-wide threat made by an eco-terrorist organization and the efforts to stop them while at the same time setting up a large scale experiment for sustainable living. The book combines murder, espionage, romance and revenge into the fictional story while exploring the urgency of global issues we face in real life.

(Officially published at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F92WRVN4 ) Horizons Corporation is a distant memory, but the damage they wrought remains. Humanity has seen the Forces for what they are, and they are suffering. Fatality is tasked with healing the injured and dying nature gods, but everywhere she turns, something is watching, out to get her. Worse, Void has announced his return. The old gods are back, and they demand sacrifices. How can Fatality save everyone when she might not be able to save herself? The asteroid is coming. Three Wasted Chances is an action-packed dystopic mythological/sci-fi story and is the third and final novel in the Fatality series. )

***Appears in @Ooorah Tevun-Krus #75*** Isna Dahal is ready to kick back and toast a job well done on her first break from the project in five years. When she's called in to investigate an unusual problem, however, she uncovers a danger that could threaten the entire Array. The celebration will have to wait. - I originally started this story as a submission to the @ScienceFiction #scifiholiday contest. I didn't finish it it time to qualify, but it seemed promising enough to finish. I hope you enjoy the read!

At a time when climate change has wrought transformations in south India's Kaveri river basin, a negotiator for a small town travels to Bengaluru to make a trade deal. During his trip, he meets a range of people with diverse vested interests, all fighting to get their share of available resources.

This is not a dystopia. This is not a wasted landscape, a place without hope. This is not the land of Bradbury, Lowry, Collins, Orwell, or Roth. This is not a dystopia. But there are some who would disagree. **** Fifty years after the Third World War and its catastrophic impact on the environment and its inhabitants, societies are just beginning to remember how to do anything but survive. But as attention shifts from bare survival to quality of life, it is clear that not all visions for society are the same--and there are some who would risk a new era of conflict to make their vision a reality. It is in this society teetering between disasters that four young adults find themselves with more power--and in more danger--than they ever expected. Ophelia is a high-ranking government employee, fiercely committed to her vision of the future and harboring a terrifying secret. Derek is the leader of a growing revolution, intent on changing the society he hates--through whatever means possible. Caden is a young, rising soldier caught in a dangerous dance between loyalty and honesty. Indie is a farmer, struggling with mental illness and swept into a conflict that threatens to destroy her home and her future, even as she holds a key to the past that could change it all. Told from four perspectives, Collective explores the politics of idealism, the meaning of freedom, and the choice to define ourselves in the face of an always changing world.