[image error] The world is morphing into a greater dystopia as my post-apocalypse novel is being finished.

07/05/2020 . Somewhere around the sixth grade, I remember reading in class an excerpt from an Isaac Asimov novel. It concerned a man’s journey through a ruined city. The man seemed like an American Indian and the ruins are gradually revealed (to the reader) to be those of modern buildings (circa 1960s). It seems the world had fallen leaving people living in a primitive state and believing that the ruins were built by gods. 

That story greatly impressed me. It led to my love of post apocalypse and dystopian science fiction (Planet of the Apes, Earth II, The Coming of the Horseclans, The Road, 1984, etc). So when I had to come up with a story idea for a novel-writing course, I settled on a post apocalypse along the lines of the Asimov story. Working on it for over ten years, I’m finally nearing its completion. I spent much of that time just learning how to write a novel while dealing with my day job. Hopefully, you’ll soon be able to judge how much I learned. 

My novel ( Power of the Ancients ) envisions the earth of the 24th century as being in the throws of an ice age with humanity reduced to a basically stone age level. There are pockets where ancient technology (21st century technology) is preserved. Factions contend over possessing this preserved tech for the sake of (remaining) world conquest. Our world’s fall came about as the result of a Day After Tomorrow superstorm, deliberately set off with weather control tech by oligarchs who wanted to ride it out and then come out from under their rocks to rule surviving humanity. 

So I’ve written this post-apocalyptic tale being motivated by the belief that Global Civilization will fall and the planet either destroyed or humans will be reduced to a minimal existence. Years of reading about corrupt governments, secretive ruling elites, and the peaking of crude oil resources and most other resources (re: The Limits to Growth), primed me to tell this story. Indeed, the ruling powers executing their endgame for world domination is some perverse synchronicity with my novel coming together at this time. Karma?

I’ve often said my novel is optimistic compared to reality. I’ve created a fallen world that is, nonetheless, akin to Game of Thrones where I fear it will be more like The Road. I’m being thoughtful in my book while trying to write an engaging story. I don’t know if readers will see it. Well, though close, it’s not done yet.