Global Warming Fun 5: It’s a Dry Heat

by Gary J. Davies

  About Other Publications by This Author

  This is the fifth story in the series Global Warming Fun; as many as ten instalments in this series are expected. If you enjoyed this novel, you may be interested in reading the other short stories and novellas of this series as they gradually emerge. The next/sixth story will feature New York City, and should also prove interesting to write and hopefully amusing to read!

  You may also be interested in the already published full-length e-books of this author, including a diverse collection of twenty fantasy and sci-fi short stories titled There Goes The Neighborhood; Earthly Fantasy/Science Fiction Short Stories. Like my novels these short stories range from pure science fiction to pure fantasy, and most take place in contemporary Earth settings.

  If you like ancient secrets, magic and science, romance and adventure, science fiction and fantasy, parallel universes and hidden fantasy worlds, try reading the full-length novel Secrets of Goth Mountain (which like much of Global Warming Fun has a Native American setting) and its loosely coupled epic-length fun-packed sequel Government Men. Government Men has a bit of everything, including the book itself and its thinly disguised author. Yes, oddly enough this book includes itself and the author, along with unicorns, dragons, psychics, space aliens, the ghost of Geronimo, impending Armageddon, and much, much more! This was my first written work, and I thought it might well be my last, and I admit that I got a little carried away, and featured everything including a kitchen sink. Both of these action filled books employ a great deal of science-based fiction, as well as strong doses of fantasy and romance.

  Readers who like birds and traditional 'pure' science fiction and also like strong human female heroines and stronger blue jay heroes may (if T-rex sized raptors and other deadly nuisances can be tolerated) enjoy an adventure trip to Aves the bird planet, achieved by reading the sci-fi adventure Blue Dawn Jay of Aves. Other than some of my short stories, this is my only truly 'pure' science fiction work to date.

  Fantasy noir detective fans that can abide what used to be known by feminists as a 'male chauvinist pig' private detective as a hero, and can also tolerate trolls, elves, and other unexpected visitors to our world along with a talking mob cat, may enjoy The Shrinking Nuts Case. This is my only novel length 'pure fantasy' work to date.

  I try to employ a touch of humor in most of my works, particularly in Government Men, The Shrinking Nuts Case, and some of my short stories. I also lean heavily towards positive outcomes, although just as in real life, those don't always happen. I avoid explicit sex scenes: that's been done before zillions of times. I also usually avoid vampires and zombies, as they are overdone and their existence seems highly problematic from a science viewpoint. However several of my new novels that are in the works do include some such creatures, including the jant-zombies of the Global Warming Fun series.

  To learn the author's world view (accurate when the book was written, when it rains, and also every other Thursday) including thoughts on multiverse and quantum mechanics physics concepts and how that compares with phenomena that occur in the above novels, get a little geeky with the brief little e-book NOW and the Weltanschauung of Government Men. Several other non-fiction books are contemplated, including highly exciting writings on dust, dirt, and grass (the kind of grass found in lawns).

  Currently ten releases are sketched out for this increasingly expansive Global Warming Fun series. In the first stories at least, the emphasis has been strongly science/science fiction Vs fantasy, except for the telepathic abilities of some characters, which is not really explained adequately enough in science terms to be termed science fiction. How/if the Earth and humanity will survive the trauma of global warming and other problems is at this time not known by the author. (What makes reading fun also makes writing fun!) We shall need to discover how things turn out together!

  In recent times it seems that actual events (cold winters in the North East USA, draught in California and parts of Africa, the Middle East, and India, and floods elsewhere, influencing subsequent rebellion in Syria and migration from Bangladesh, etc.) predicted by climate change modeling are perhaps beginning to happen faster than I can write about them. That sort of thing has happened to me before, as I am an inherently sluggish thinker and a dismally slow and inept writer.

  In the first Global Warming Fun story Ed Rumsfeld and his wife Mary are introduced, along with emerging aspects of the global warming/climate change dilemma including the amazing intelligent ants called jants, their creator Jerry Green (a rogue itinerant gene-splicer) and the Government agents that pursue him. In the 'Forward' section of the first release of the series the initial over-all concept for the Global Warming Fun series is also more extensively discussed, providing greater insight into the behind the scenes sausage-making of this series for anyone interested in such mundane things.

  The second story in the series is a substantial novella in which Ed and his wife Mary move to a Native American reservation where the ancient Stone-Coats/Ice Giants of Mohawk tribal legend are found to be creatures of history instead of being mere myths, and animated by silicone and carbon-based 'smart rock' that make use of currently known science properties rather than supernatural means. Though disaster is averted the creatures tentatively become allies of the jants in their long-term plan to perhaps replace mankind. Also, as New England is to become yet colder as a result of climate change, the Reservation faces an uncertain future.

  The third story of the series takes place two decades later in New York City and features the jants, and introduces medical ticks (med-ticks) and a new human character named George.

  The fourth story returns to the Mohawk Reservation of Giants' Rest Mountain introduced in the second story, another decade and a half after the third story, approximately thirty five years after the Reservation and Tribe were introduced in the second story. Huge changes have occurred, including the formation of thirty-foot thick ice sheets that cover much of New England and Eastern Canada. The teenager Mike Dawn Owl and his Stone-Coat companion go on a spirit quest and along with their wolf friends battle giant flies which prove to be as tasty as chicken.

  This fifth story takes place in a severely traumatized California and the sixth will occur in New York City. What fun!

  Happy reading!

  Mechanicsville MD; May 2016

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