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Finitude
A light-hearted climate change adventure story about an insurance salesman at the end of the world. After a thirty-year rationing plan called “The Effort” the prime minister declares VC Day: “Victory over the Climate”. But chronically depressed insurance salesman Jeremy Chutter knows it’s all hot air. The end is nigh — and he can’t wait! Then Jeremy’s world gets turned upside-down…
" said the figure, pointing.
Jeremy twisted himself upright and looked at the tall, sloppy man with a curly shamble of hair on his head. "Who are you?" Jeremy demanded.
"I'm Victor," the man replied. One of his assistant-friends returned to the elevator and emerged again with a bamboo-pole lamp and a huge, tasselled shade.
As he watched the lamp hula-dance past, Jeremy's mouth pursed in a Wha-?
Victor crossed the lobby with his hand extended. "I'm your new neighbour," he said. "My ma owned this place, but she's been in a home forever. Non compos mentis. Environmental poisoning or something. She finally kicked off a few weeks ago and left it to me-pretty damned handy, since they were going to knock down my old building."
Jeremy stared up from the floor.
Victor looked at Des and grinned. "Hello Miss."
Two
Misrule
Jeremy was startled awake by knocking. He shuffled through the flat and opened his door. Despendra stood there
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When the blurb says, "light-hearted climate change adventure story...at the end of the world" that's exactly what you're getting. I was intrigued by the climate change fiction angle, but got Douglas Adams lite instead. Not bad, quick read.
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