Termination Shock
- Published2021
- Read in 2021
- Genre Sci-fi/fantasy
Synopsis
A rich Texan who has invested in real estate in Houston, decides to build giant sulfure shooting guns in the texas, to cool down the earth.
He invites the queen of the netherlands, the president of singapour, the lord mayor of london and some ancient family of Venice to inaugurate the gun, as they are the one most favorables to cooling down the earth. China and India are unsure about the side-effects and so China tries early on to play in a role in knowing and controlling the situation. They manage to create a tsunami on the Netherlands and post fake videos of the queen, which forces her to abdicate.
In the meantime, a Canadian Sikh is becoming a super-hero of India by fighting on the Line of Actual Control in Tibet.
The Venetians and the Texan, financed by Arabs, are building another guns in Albania. And the Texan is building one on Guinea, so to spread the cloud and making sure that the Earth is homogenously receiving the sulfur.
The India send BigFish, their super-hero, to destroy the Gun, but he is stopped by a Wildboar hunter we have been following.
He invites the queen of the netherlands, the president of singapour, the lord mayor of london and some ancient family of Venice to inaugurate the gun, as they are the one most favorables to cooling down the earth. China and India are unsure about the side-effects and so China tries early on to play in a role in knowing and controlling the situation. They manage to create a tsunami on the Netherlands and post fake videos of the queen, which forces her to abdicate.
In the meantime, a Canadian Sikh is becoming a super-hero of India by fighting on the Line of Actual Control in Tibet.
The Venetians and the Texan, financed by Arabs, are building another guns in Albania. And the Texan is building one on Guinea, so to spread the cloud and making sure that the Earth is homogenously receiving the sulfur.
The India send BigFish, their super-hero, to destroy the Gun, but he is stopped by a Wildboar hunter we have been following.
My take
The book was very much in the style of Seveneves and even more in the style of Fall or, Dodge in Hell.. So we follow people connected to the overall stories, and they have theories and stories that are a bit wild, but also make a little bit of sense. The book was also very contemporary, in the sense that it did mention Trump supporters and Covid in interesting ways. Somehow the geoengineering political issues were put on an interesting light.
Anyway, a good read, but not my favorite Neal Stephenson
Anyway, a good read, but not my favorite Neal Stephenson