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When a relentless solar crisis dooms Earth, who gets a ticket to the stars? A tense, near-future apocalyptic sci-fi exploring global triage, climate disaster, and a desperate race against time to build humanity's final arks.
The world won’t cool. Who gets saved?
Years after the Mindslip, Earth is running a fever that won’t break. Satellites fail, coasts empty, and borders harden as heat records fall week after week. Scientist Beth Arnold wants one thing: keep her family safe while the world chooses a future that won’t kill it.
Governments and space agencies sketch four imperfect plans. Dig refuges under Antarctica. Expand a moon base. Throw vast resources at stopgap fixes that buy a few scorched years. Or commit to the audacious build of a starship that could carry a fragment of humanity to another sun.
Each path saves some and abandons others. Each demands decisions about who counts. As supplies tighten and protests flare, Beth is pulled into the brutal arithmetic of triage, where every meeting means winners and ghosts.
The countdown is real; the choice will define a species.
Scorched Earth, book two of the Mindslip Universe, is a mind-bending, thought-provoking leap from identity shock to planetary triage and a starship bid for tomorrow. Perfect for readers who love unique, original concepts that linger long after the last page.
Publisher’s note: Scorched Earth was previously published as HEAT.
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Praise for the Mindslip Universe:
★★★★★ "Ground-breaking brilliance"
★★★★★ "This one will make you think!"
★★★★★ "Amazing. Clever. GENIUS!"
★★★★★ "Unique… captivating, emotionally engaging… it will stay with me for a long time."
★★★★★ "It is a real page turner and would make an excellent movie or mini-series."
★★★★★ "Mind-bending plot"
★★★★★ "Most intriguing and different sci-fi book I've ever read."
★★★★★ “A brilliant, original concept, flawlessly executed.”
★★★★★ “Kept me thinking long after I finished.”
★★★★★ “Utterly original and compelling—read it straight through.”
★★★★★ “A unique idea handled with intelligence and heart.”
★★★★★ “I finished and immediately wanted to talk about it.”
Biography: Tony is now retired from his career in tourism, but is still considered to be one of the foremost authorities on the mystery at Loch Ness. He conceived designed, created and co-founded the Official Loch Ness Monster Exhibition Centre; was administrative coordinator of Operation Deepscan during 1986/7; created the Macbeth Experience multi-media exhibition in Perthshire, became Bursar of Fort Augustus Abbey on Loch Ness where he designed and wrote the highly acclaimed Fort Augustus Abbey Heritage Centre and also the Loch Ness Story Diorama; invented the award-winning board game, Nessie Hunt; scripted the Polygram video Loch Ness Monster Story; wrote Mysterious Monsters of Loch Ness, and Loch Ness The Monster, the latter being reprinted on eight occasions. His Loch Ness, Nessie and Me book, containing over 300 pages and more than 200 photographs and illustrations, is considered essential reading for anyone interested in the truth about Loch Ness. It has also been described as the most comprehensive book ever written on the subject.
The last paragraph should give you confidence that Tony can tell a good story!
Although born and brought up in England, he is descended from King Robert the Bruce. His mixed heritage has resulted in him being a rather strange combination of Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland supporter. Neither team seem to ever win anything! Although, perhaps, this year? As this last sentence demonstrates, he is also a great optimist!
Tony has a background in sales and industry holding down management posts with Loyds, Top Rank, Granada, Wella and Lenthéric Morny (BAC). These posts were in Manchester and the south of England. He moved to Drumnadrochit in 1978 to follow up several years' interest in Loch Ness. In 1980 it was his idea to set up the Loch Ness Exhibition and he went on to have a very successful career designing visitor centres, exhibitions and multi-media presentations.
He now writes science fiction full time and if the reviews are to be believed, he is very good at it. His style is similar to that of John Wyndham and Arthur C Clarke, but some reviewers say his work is similar to Asimov, Heinlein and Bradbury too.