Echoes of a Lost Earth Part One

They said the wanton, carefree use of hydrocarbons would boil the world like an egg, and they called it: climate change – the 6th extinction. In the end, though, it doesn’t matter: the Earth overcomes. You see, it was never about the weather, but what stops happening because of the weather, like crops and civilisations. Then they said a shifting climate wouldn’t have much of an effect: one, or two degrees… maybe. That the oceanic thermals would be fine. Probably. But they always say that.

Jack is a British soldier fighting in the last oil war. Areena, a climatologist with access to a decades-old Dim Beacon predicting a rapid climate event. She only realises how high the stakes really are as tanks grind into Parliament Square.

Joshua works in closed-loop biome research and mixes with all the right people – as if it were being orchestrated. They call him Saviour, but he’s not so sure. At least he has Art, a friend from Eden. Guy can smell the opportunities bubbling up out of a crumbling system. Mù looks on as Sergei acts. Roman gets pulled in and Dean still thinks nothing can surprise him. While Alice is content to watch, and wait.