Perhaps it’s human nature…we know we shouldn’t smoke or eat at McDonalds we should sleep more and let friends know we appreciate them and love them and yet for all the common knowledge of all the things we should be doing and the things we’re not doing…we keep rolling on not aware of our blind spots.

It offers a number of perspectives as each member in the cast has their own hopes, setbacks and classic existential despair from a polar icebreaker to South America and lots more remarkable locations.Īnd sure this is a science-fiction novel and yeah it is a near-future novel but doesn’t that image also reflect our tepid responses to the environment? It’s our blind spot…often we fail to operate with a sense of urgency with maximum effort recognizing it’s a crisis.Īt least in this novel they have a clear timeframe: 1 year or else…extinction. Super compelling The NY Times listed The Effort in New & Noteworthy and I agree. As the citizens of Earth grapple with the devastating news a group of scientists and nerds gather together in a Defense Effort (get it?) to avoid doom, disaster and death. We never saw it coming…so as the novel unfolds humans have one year left before it hits. Here’s a striking image that lends itself to easy metaphor: The Effort, a sci-fi novel by Claire Holroyde begins with an 8 kilometer dark comet UD3 emerging from a blind spot hurtling towards Earth.

My Summer Lair Chapter #190: What Would You Do If Faced With An Extinction Level Event?

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