Something Better

by Jim Bates

For Quinn and his young family, life in 2220 in the aftermath of global warming was a depressing dead-end existence with no future past the mandatory forty-year life span at which point you were unceremoniously put to death and turned into compost. But only if you lived that long. One day Quinn makes a fateful decision with a disastrous effect, and it forces he and his wife and son along with a friend to flee the confines of The City in search of a different life. Something better. But first they need to elude the World Order Security Police who are dispatched to track them down with orders to shoot to kill. Will they make? Read their inspiring story and find out.

152 pages, Paperback

Published July 7, 2021

Reviews

[P.C. Darkcliff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jim Bates immediately drew me into the book by describing a seemingly enjoyable father-son outing... and slowly but relentlessly revealing the horrible world they lived in. I found myself cheering for the main characters as they decided they had enough of living in a gray, polluted city under a cruel regime that kept them separated and threatened to shorten their lives to save the dwindling food supplies and punish their minor offenses.
The book brims with action and adventure, but it is also a warning—a warning against global warming and all its possible consequences. Highly recommendable!