Tikopia IV

A quarter million humans migrate from a dying Earth to a new planet Tikopia IV orbiting the star Tau Ceti. Their journey to Tikopia IV is aboard a giant rotating Torus Ark named Tikopia III. The namesake for their Ark and the new planet is an island in the Pacific Ocean of Earth called Tikopia which had once been inhabited sustainably for over three thousand years. Our cautionary tale begins with our heroine, a journalist Ida Tarbell. Her character is based on the journalist famous for taking down Standard Oil in 1905 CE. Ida interviews various experts aboard Torus Ark about what happened on the Earth to cause the biosphere to collapse leading to human extinction. Her work ultimately takes her to the surface of the new planet, Tikopia IV, as humans endeavor to explore and settle their new world.

John Gilkison resides in Radium Springs, NM, and has been an amateur astronomer for 40 years. In 2012, John retired after 25 years as a jet turbine and physical plant operator for New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. He chaired a committee that wrote the Las Cruces, NM Outdoor Lighting Ordinance in 1999, which was adopted in 2000. In 1999, he incorporated and currently serves as president of the National Public Observatory, Inc., a non-profit organization. John has designed a Facebook page for the NPO. He also set up a Facebook page for an Electric Vehicle Organization. John is a prolific writer/ blogger for EV World. He published a compilation of his blogs in a book titled "Driving on the Moon" in 2017. "Tikopia IV" is John's attempt to outline the current predicament humanity finds itself in, regarding Abrupt Climate Change through science fiction.