| Author: | Terrence Rickard | ISBN: | 9781466172098 |
| Publisher: | Terrence Rickard | Publication: | December 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Terrence Rickard |
| ISBN: | 9781466172098 |
| Publisher: | Terrence Rickard |
| Publication: | December 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
This humorous mystery novel is an account of how TV journalist Mike Stanley and his girl friend Jill, who is a computer genius and works for the federal police, become entangled in a horrendous conspiracy.
Step by step they discovers that a group of frustrated United Nations ambassadors, sick of having issues vetoed and feeling stymied by the UN’s failure to resolve most major issues, has formed a secret organization called the Solution Society. This secret society has connections to like-minded and powerful people in governments, industry, and the military in almost every country. Their objective is to solve all the tough problems using clandestine methods. They think of themselves as the new unofficial world government with the ability to make the necessary decisions that no government could make, unhindered by the red tape of convoluted protocol, and the necessity to win votes to stay in power.
With global warming, dwindling oil and mineral resources, overpopulation, soil degradation and ecological vandalism threatening dramatic changes culminating in a disastrous future for this planet the Solution Society comes up with a radical plan they call the Asimov Project. (Inspired by the environment described in one of Isaac Asimov's novels.) They decide that the only realistic way to solve all the problems in one shot, and bring on a bright new future for a selected group of worthy people is by reducing the human population with a massive cull - what Mike refers to as a gigacull when he discovers that they are on the verge of releasing a manufactured, weapons grade, and extremely deadly virus that will reduce the world’s population to less than one billion.
Besides the prospect of being murdered, the main obstacle stopping Mike from telling the world about his discovery is his inability to decide if he wants to try to stop it.
What is so blood chillingly horrific about this novel is this – not only is it completely plausible, it reeks of the likelihood, and perhaps even the necessity of actually happening.
Although events described in this novel have not yet happened I don't think of it as a SF novel. There is no science in it that does not already exist. It’s a warning about what some selfish, worried, and perhaps powerful and paranoid people could be planning right now.
Please don’t let this solemn and depressing description of the novel put you off reading it. I have tried to incorporate a bucket of laughs into it, and to write it in an entertaining and interesting way.
This humorous mystery novel is an account of how TV journalist Mike Stanley and his girl friend Jill, who is a computer genius and works for the federal police, become entangled in a horrendous conspiracy.
Step by step they discovers that a group of frustrated United Nations ambassadors, sick of having issues vetoed and feeling stymied by the UN’s failure to resolve most major issues, has formed a secret organization called the Solution Society. This secret society has connections to like-minded and powerful people in governments, industry, and the military in almost every country. Their objective is to solve all the tough problems using clandestine methods. They think of themselves as the new unofficial world government with the ability to make the necessary decisions that no government could make, unhindered by the red tape of convoluted protocol, and the necessity to win votes to stay in power.
With global warming, dwindling oil and mineral resources, overpopulation, soil degradation and ecological vandalism threatening dramatic changes culminating in a disastrous future for this planet the Solution Society comes up with a radical plan they call the Asimov Project. (Inspired by the environment described in one of Isaac Asimov's novels.) They decide that the only realistic way to solve all the problems in one shot, and bring on a bright new future for a selected group of worthy people is by reducing the human population with a massive cull - what Mike refers to as a gigacull when he discovers that they are on the verge of releasing a manufactured, weapons grade, and extremely deadly virus that will reduce the world’s population to less than one billion.
Besides the prospect of being murdered, the main obstacle stopping Mike from telling the world about his discovery is his inability to decide if he wants to try to stop it.
What is so blood chillingly horrific about this novel is this – not only is it completely plausible, it reeks of the likelihood, and perhaps even the necessity of actually happening.
Although events described in this novel have not yet happened I don't think of it as a SF novel. There is no science in it that does not already exist. It’s a warning about what some selfish, worried, and perhaps powerful and paranoid people could be planning right now.
Please don’t let this solemn and depressing description of the novel put you off reading it. I have tried to incorporate a bucket of laughs into it, and to write it in an entertaining and interesting way.
