Michael Dwyer
Being an adventurous youth I lived as a foreigner for some years in Europe working alongside illegal immigrants and hippies. Returning to Australia I wondered how the world really ticks. Earthly Threats is my first major novel written with the friendly and helpful critiques of the Marion Writers Group. I'm impressed by the 60's and 70's amazing science fiction and their questioning of the future. Today we believe in economic growth forever and assume eight billion people will live happily on a planet with declining resources and an increasingly turbulent climate. I support political sustainability groups. To find thinking and plotting time, I have ridden across Australia, both North to South and East to West. And with a passion for organic food I'm involved in the local community garden. And the compost heap. Hint! It would be awesome to find a realistic path to a thriving living planet with a civilisation to last a thousand years and more.
Climate Fiction Fantasy
Gai's Whisper
Eco Uprising
Fact, Fiction and Fantasy is set in a small town today near an expanding, ever growing city. Our hero Nathan, and green activist heroine Jenny, struggle with town personalities, modern day issues of energy, climate change and refugees. And magic. Nathan's dear old landlady mentions there is a fairy at the bottom of the garden. His scepticism turns to amazement then fear as he discovers the true nature of the fairy or earth spirit. The earth spirit predicts a collapse of the natural environment and blames the activities of eight billion people. It's solutions are frightening and intolerable for our hero. The earth spirit in his compost heap may indeed be the devil incarnate. Nathan is in a dilemma. He is not interested in Jenny's alternate eco-village; he wants a house, a car and a good regular paying job. He must fend off the threatening magic earth spirit, please his Jenny, plus he'd like one of those new houses in the proposed real estate development. The earth spirit gives him special magic powers to project emotions. He attends a real estate sales day and his rousing speech convinces all prospective buyers to walk away. Nathan much prefers the simple life in his garden but the earth spirit insist he take on a leading environmentalist role and so too does his partner, Jenny. Unwillingly, he plans to protect nature and civilisation. With the tragedy of Climate Change bushfires in the background, Nathan and the earth spirit disrupt the world economy.
