Global Warming Fun 4:
They Taste Like Chicken
By
Gary J. Davies
Global Warming Fun 4: They Taste Like Chicken
Copyright 2015 Gary J. Davies
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Contents
Forward
Chapter 1: The July Chief
Chapter 2: The Spirit Quest Begins
Chapter 3: Jerry Arrives
Chapter 4: Red Claw
Chapter 5: Jerry's Conference
Chapter 6: Deadly Trail
Chapter 7: Immortality?
Chapter 8: Ann
Chapter 9: Fly Fishing
Chapter 10: Pact
Chapter 11: Okwaho
Chapter 12: Night Owl
Chapter 13: Maggots
Chapter 14: Tsiks Attack
Chapter 15: The Fly Mystery
Chapter 16: Idyllic Campout
Chapter 17: Homecoming
Chapter 18: The Offer
About Other Publications by This Author
Forward
The novella Global Warming Fun 4: They Taste Like Chicken can be read independently as a stand-alone story, but for a better sense of the over-all plot and more insight into some of the characters, before reading this story its prequels should be read. In the 'Forward' section of the first release of the series the over-all concept for the Global Warming Fun series is more extensively discussed, providing greater insight into the behind the scenes sausage-making of this series for anyone interested in such mundane things.
The general plan is for each story in the series to provide a glimpse of both typical and critical events amid an increasingly unstable world in which natural, technological and mythical forces are being unleashed due to climate change and other human induced problems. In the first stories at least, the emphasis has been strongly science/science fiction Vs fantasy, except perhaps for the telepathic abilities of some characters, which is not really explained in science terms.
In the first story Ed Rumsfeld and his wife Mary were introduced, along with emerging aspects of the global warming/climate change dilemma including the amazing intelligent ants called jants, their creator Jerry Green (a rogue itinerant gene-splicer) and the Government agents that pursued him.
In the second story Ed and his wife Mary moved to a Native American reservation where the ancient Stone-Coats/Ice Giants of Mohawk tribal legend were found to be creatures of history instead of being mere myths, and animated by silicone and carbon-based 'smart rock' that use known science properties rather than through supernatural means. Though disaster was averted the creatures became allies of the jants in their long-term plan to replace mankind. Also, as New England is to become yet colder as a result of climate change, the Reservation faces an uncertain future.
The third story of the series takes place two decades later in New York City and features the jants, and introduces medical ticks and a new human character named George.
This fourth story returns to the Mohawk Reservation of Giants' Rest Mountain introduced in the second story, another decade and a half after the third story, approximately thirty five years after the Reservation and Tribe were introduced in the second story. Huge changes have occurred, including a thirty-foot thick ice sheet.
Currently ten releases are sketched out for this series. How/if the Earth and humanity will survive the trauma of global warming and other problems is at this time not known by the author. (What makes reading fun also makes writing fun!) We shall need to discover how things turn out together. In recent times it seems that actual events (cold winters in the North East USA, draught in California and parts of Africa, influencing subsequent rebellion in Syria and migration from Bangladesh, etc.) predicted by climate change modeling are perhaps beginning to happen faster than I can write about them. That sort of thing has happened to me before, as I am an inherently slow writer.
I am indebted to numerous information sources, most found on the internet (including Wiki and Edge websites), for knowledge about the Mohawk, climate change, and other concepts used in this series.
As always I thank my wife and daughters for putting up with all this writing nonsense, Bill Gates for his useful spell-checker that makes even physics-trained engineers passable spellers, and my favorite author James P. Blaylock for his early inspiringly silly fabulist fantasy writings. I wish also to thank the makers of Paint, the freeware which supports my awkwardly challenging but enjoyable creation of what are (hopefully) nifty little e-book covers. My KISS philosophy with regard to covers is to as much as possible design them to be simple, legible, amusing, and attention getting even when they are only three or four centimeters high.
Happy reading!
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Global Warming Fun 4:
They Taste Like Chicken