Cold

Jim Pearce

ISBN 10: 1803135220 / ISBN 13: 9781803135229

Editore: Matador, 2022

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• Titolo: Cold
• Editore: Matador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1803135220
• ISBN 13: 9781803135229
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Used; Very Good

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Riassunto

The near future is a world in which scientists and their AI got it wrong.

Rising temperatures have caused fires that burned landmasses, and the ash from these fires block out the sun. The resulting cold is extreme, like a nuclear winter, and was a mass extinction event for human beings the world over. Electricity grids, communications and services all failed. Societies collapsed. Humanity is reduced to small groups of survivors, scraping by however they can.

Resources are scarce, and bands of survivors resort to violence to obtain enough food and fuel to survive.

A man and his family group have survived the cruel winter by hiding in a house in Surrey, but when a roaming gang starts to ravage the area, they are forced to run. As they flee to safety, the cohesion and tolerance that had kept them going for so long starts to fracture…

Informazioni sull?autore

Jim Pearce is a geologist, who has worked in gold mining in Ghana then with Schlumberger on the rigs in the Middle East and Latin America before getting a scholarship to complete an MBA at INSEAD. Now a partner in the Energy practice of Kearney, where he has been for over 21 years, he has led their operations practice in EMEA, and now Northern Europe, working with clients who are trying to change their ways and not harm the planet.