On the Brink of Bloom (demo)

Summer 2028. Dotty Godman, a finance genius, faces a horrible finding: asteroid Apophis is about to hit Earth next April. She decides to fight back and save her family. She knows whom to turn to: her ex-friend Bash Venters, an EV and space tech billionaire.
The society is in turmoil. Environmental worries and recent market crash have turned masses to millennialist doomsday cult. Countries and international organizations are stuck in political squabbling. Controversial business leaders are the ones who can safe the Earth, but they have their own deep designs. What are the true motivations?
Saving the Earth, Dotty Godman is about to sacrifice has personal life, including marriage with her husband, an ambitious and neurotic artist. To top the trouble, her a KGB-connection smear campaign is directed at her father, who dies in suspicious circumstances, and Dotty's daughter Elisa has her own grandiose plans with extremist Green Dusk movement.
Less than a year. French Riviera. Silicon Valley. Latvia. Saharan desert. The multi layered psychological thriller pushes humanity's face into the mirror. How did we get here? What gives us power to go on, if at all? How to cope with the constant feeling of being on the brink of bloom and not getting there? Maybe, even facing a deadly asteroid, the greatest disasters happen in persons' minds.
Critics say the novel is far from "just sci-fi" and rather reminds them of Michel Houellebecq, Graham Greene or George Orwell.

Example chapters translated from Estonian by Kristel Kont