YAWN!
OK, no doubt you've seen it all before - but really this is different. In a long and varied career in self-employment, working mainly as a furniture maker but also, for contrast, as a music promoter, and restorer of old houses, I've never been able to sit still for long enough to finish a book - until now in the last few years of my 60th decade.So I make my debut as an author just after celebrating my 70th birthday. That's a cause for celebration even if I don't manage to sell the film rights!
The book is actually 3 books and it is being published using technology which has only recently become available. The three books will be published in e-book form on Amazon, but they will be combined in a print version which will be available as "Print on Demand". That means that there is no fixed print run, but as soon as the publishers (Cambria Books) have a sale, whether it be for one book or twenty, just that number is printed and sent to the buyer.
The scope of the book is pretty extraordinary too - it covers 100 years. Not a century of history, but the one we have yet to experience. This century STARTS in 2020.
So, it's a work of imagination, fantasy? Yes, but it's more important than that. Here is the text on the back cover:
“What sort of World are we leaving them?”
These three books look at a series of important ideas about
how human beings conduct their lives, and how these ideas might play out in the
coming century. Will it be high-tech, low carbon, high population, or will
millions die to enable a truly sustainable world to be born?
The main
protagonist throughout is an ageless figure called Vandervelde. Through the
lives of Van, those around him and their offspring we get a vivid picture of
what it might be like to live in different versions of our possible future, all
very recognisable but politically radically different from the ‘business as
usual’ scenario on offer in 2014.
The series
begins with an end - a world in 2120 of around 1.5 billion people who know that
they must live, “as all life on earth must live, only on what the earth can
provide”. It is a world in which Homo Sapiens has at last learnt some
sapience.
So the really important thing about this book is that it explores in a very realistic way, backed up by extensive reading, a series of ideas about how human beings should conduct their lives to enable the species to survive for another millennium.
Isn't that more important than your next gadget?
If you think it is then please like my author page:
PS I love gadgets too!
