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FutureCast: When Predicting the Weather Can Lead to a Global Catastrophe
Harold Keeley, a television weatherman, stumbles onto a system to control the weather after his friend and business partner, who designed the system, mysteriously dies in a car accident. Unbeknownst to him, the system also has weapons applications, the development of which have been paid for by a power-hungry billionaire businessman and supported at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
When Keeley experiments with the system in order to increase his television ratings, the results are deadly, and the ultimate ramifications threaten the very future of the earth. It is up to Keeley; a doomed NASA astronaut abandoned in space, and a former undercover operative, recalled to duty for one last mission to disable the system and remove the threat of an imminent planet-wide catastrophe.
When Keeley experiments with the system in order to increase his television ratings, the results are deadly, and the ultimate ramifications threaten the very future of the earth. It is up to Keeley; a doomed NASA astronaut abandoned in space, and a former undercover operative, recalled to duty for one last mission to disable the system and remove the threat of an imminent planet-wide catastrophe.
354 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 26, 2013
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March 31, 2013
This review is from a professional Editor... this are not my words but the words of a woman that I respect highly and read the book in its early form:
FUTURECAST is an ambitious novel and I respect the tremendous amount of research and work that has gone into its creation. The idea of a means to control the weather, thereby harnessing the potential both for tremendous good and tremendous harm, is wonderful. On its own, that would be an intriguing foundation for a novel. It's taken this weather-controlling system one step further and given it a weapons application, thereby dramatically increasing its potential to do both good (self-defense) and harm.
I like the premise, and I like what appears to be its legitimate scientific underpinnings. I’m not sure how much of the science and math are real, but it doesn’t really matter, because they are very credible.
As a reader, I have absolute faith that you know what you’re talking about – and that’s important. Perhaps that’s why the space scenes aboard Excursion and Rescue One are among my favorites in the book. More than anywhere else in the book, I feel that I’m in good hands in these scenes, that I can sit back and relax and enjoy the ride.
FUTURECAST is an ambitious novel and I respect the tremendous amount of research and work that has gone into its creation. The idea of a means to control the weather, thereby harnessing the potential both for tremendous good and tremendous harm, is wonderful. On its own, that would be an intriguing foundation for a novel. It's taken this weather-controlling system one step further and given it a weapons application, thereby dramatically increasing its potential to do both good (self-defense) and harm.
I like the premise, and I like what appears to be its legitimate scientific underpinnings. I’m not sure how much of the science and math are real, but it doesn’t really matter, because they are very credible.
As a reader, I have absolute faith that you know what you’re talking about – and that’s important. Perhaps that’s why the space scenes aboard Excursion and Rescue One are among my favorites in the book. More than anywhere else in the book, I feel that I’m in good hands in these scenes, that I can sit back and relax and enjoy the ride.
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