SlenderWolf Conflicts and Alliances

After The Great Famine everything is scarce. Climate change caused the increased demand for energy, which led to the oil and gas running out, which in turn had led to the failure of large scale agriculture. The Great Famine caused the population of the world to halve. Rising sea levels changed the coastlines of the British Isles, and that meant that some major cities were no longer viable.

London is largely under water. East Anglia has vanished. The Isle of Thanet is an island again. Populations in general moved to higher ground where they developed a renewed interest in traditional skills and in farming. Old fishing ports on mountainous coasts became particularly popular.

The year is 2450AD. Darwin is still taught in schools in order to promote a “survival” mindset. Those who are the most responsive to change are the ones who are most likely to survive.

In a post fossil fuel world, a post nuclear energy world, your resourcefulness determines your station in life. No telecoms, no internet, no cars, no aircraft, and a shortage of electricity. Lots of ships and lots of horses. And lots of people who know how to use them.

Territories have shrunk. Governments have changed. They’ve downsized and localised, and they are run by the people for the people.

In the Post Oil Era there is ample timber in the right places and enough clean drinking water in the right places. Many other resources are scarce and have to be found locally. And the new breed of SlenderWolf lives locally too.

And pirates! The communities around the Irish Sea suffer from restless pirates and their inconsistencies!

Inventive, imaginative, captivating and unique! Scott Rochester writes novels for teenagers aged from 9 to 99. Now retired, Scott has seen work and life move on from the 1960s to the modern day. He conjures up an interesting picture of society and civilisation by addressing topical issues from the present and projecting them into the future. Being half Irish and half Welsh, though with an accent typified as BBC English, Scott’s material involves the various communities and languages across the British Isles.

As a former teacher, Scott conscientiously employs a mix of simple and intense English which will entertain and challenge readers of all ages. There’s plenty of action, emotion, values, ethics and an entire melting pot of cross curricular material.

Scott aims to provide stimulating material for an audience of GCSE students (14 to 16 year olds). The teenage characters in his novels would surely enjoy the amusing juvenile humour which is lightly scattered throughout the stories. The names of the people and the communities, NutJob, DustyOldFossil, the Cedyrn, the Pennites and the ShamelessNickers provoke the imagination. The novels interweave diverse discussions of climate change, civics, animal welfare, crime and punishment, love and affection, commerce and industry, and science, in an entertaining way.

Family life, systems of governance, and ethical behaviour are all discussed in the context of the survival of the human race, and a balance between order and chaos. Characteristically in tune with educational trends, there is no sex, no politics, and no religion. Love and affection, yes! Taxation and representation, yes! Life, death and the afterlife, yes! All covered in a way that introduces younger readers to these subjects with no eroticism, no party politicking, and no representation of faiths nor their established beliefs. And there is no profanity.

These are the novels that you wish your parents and teachers had introduced you to when you were a 10 year old. Your kids will love them, and you will surely love them too!