The Aviator

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Flying a hi-tech airship around a planet riven by climate change and economic collapse, our hero encounters the strange remnants of civilisation - the people searching for the singularity, the rocking bishop and his flying cathedral, the last climate sceptics, the deep green terrorists, the billionaire libertarians in their bubble, and much, much more. Not to mention the goats, the girlfriend with bots in her head and the elixir of life (which is cheese).

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timjones 280 reviews

Gareth Renowden is best known in New Zealand as a journalist and science blogger – in particular, for the Hot Topic blog on climate change.

With The Aviator, Book 1 of a planned series, he turns to science fiction. In a world in which runaway climate change proceeds unchecked, airship pilot Lemmy (no relation to Motörhead) and his AI and human companions tour the world from their base in the Marlborough Sounds, visiting the communities springing up in parts of the world made newly livable and experiencing the terrible consequences of runaway climate change throughout most of the world.

If you like the great near-future science fiction novels of Kim Stanley Robinson, I think you will enjoy The Aviator.

Mar 30, 2013

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