New Book: Gaia's Children

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 21, 2011 -- Gaia’s Children is set in Scotland and written by Aberdeen writer and academic Paul Kieniewicz. In this dystopian fiction, heroes struggle against impossible odds to preserve the land and those whom they love. In a fast paced narrative, the reader is drawn into the lives of climate refugees as they struggle to adapt to Scottish culture.

Aberdeenshire 2050

In a world transformed by climate change, Scotland has become a war zone. City gangs battle homesteaders for food supplies. An unstoppable plague kills one in ten. A new race is born, the Lupans: golden-eyed and wild, they reject their mothers and live apart, speaking no recognizable language. Alienated from society, these Lupans are even hunted for sport.

For thirty years Linella Sienkiewicz has taken in climate refugees. She has protected Lupans from captivity and death. But the Scottish government, responding to public xenophobia, plans to imprison the refugees and destroy the Lupan colony. The only man who can help her is Scott Maguire, a lawyer on the run. Infected by plague he has taken shelter among the Lupans. He discovers a fascinating and impenetrable society, destined to take up the evolutionary torch from the human race. Even as he is healed and transformed by living with them, he uncovers a secret that could spell salvation for humanity – but at a terrible cost. Against impossible odds, Scott and Linella must stop the approaching army. If the Lupans are destroyed the last hope for the survival of the human race will be gone.

“I was inspired to write Gaia’s Children,” says Paul Kieniewicz, “after reading Lovelock’s The Revenge of Gaia in which he suggested that the Earth is combating our destructive influence on the biosphere in much the same way that the human body responds to an invading virus – by raising its temperature. While Gaia’s Children contains many speculative elements, I believe that by 2050 we will see waves of climate refugees coming to the UK, people, fleeing drought and famine. That new reality will be our greatest trial, bringing out both the best and the worst in us.”

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