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No tomorrow is a story of personal discovery. Here's the synopsis which may be a bit hard to read from the image of the back cover (click the image to see it in full size):

 

    Martin Truscott had been a troubled child, with an obsession with computer games. Now, he found himself driven to seek the truth. A debate about climate change had been raging in the press – yet it seemed implausible that so many scientists could be lying or deluded. But what if they were? What if the “sceptics” really were modernday Galileos? When a documentary appeared alleging just that, Martin was incensed because it was so poorly made; the mainstream scientists had little difficulty in picking it apart. Did this prove anything? No: only that the maker of the documentary did a poor job. What if the Nobel committee had blundered giving Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the 2007 Peace Prize? So he was determined to find out for himself – and make the real, definitive truth about climate change documentary. In this pursuit, he found out not only the truth about climate change, but the truth about himself – what drove him, why he didn’t have a real family, why he was so obsessed with truth …

 

Why did I write it?

 

In the wake of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, when Martin Durkin’s Great Climate Change Swindle was held up to represent “balance”, I didn't think so. It was poorly made – it started from the premise that the mainstream of climate science represented dishonest, lying, sloppy science, and attempted to cobble together “facts” to support this case. When the facts didn’t fit, they were adjusted. If someone wanted to genuinely explore whether the "sceptics" had something, you could make a decent documentary. But time was running out: Al Gore and the IPCC won the Nobel, we were heading into an election in Australia where climate change was an issue … hence the novel. It was a lot quicker to write about it happening than to do it. And besides, creating my little guys in the world where all this was happening was fun, and I hope that my creation will interest others.

 

Why self publishing?
 

It’s hard to get the attention of a publisher. I wanted to get the book out while the issue was hot (or before it became too hot …). And besides, doing it myself allowed me to do a few things my way, like mixing Australian spelling (mostly the same as UK, with minor exceptions, like the Labor Party spells their name without a “u”) and US spelling, to emphasis the mix of cultures. Publishers don’t do this: they do different editions with different spelling conventions. If this works, I may convert RAMpage Research to a boutique publisher.

 

What's RAMpage anyway? An old computer architecture research project of mine related to computer memories was called RAMpage. Its logo was an elephant because elephants have good memories and have been known to go on the rampage. You may want to guess what the green triangle behind the elephant symbolizes.

 

How to get a copy? I have instructions elsewhere on this site.

 

Also, here's an announcement on YouTube.

 

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2 messages about this page
7 Dec 2007 by conrad
Just finished reading it. All in all, an enjoyable ride. Being a
Brisbanite, the interspersed references and descriptions of Brisbane
made the story for me more involving, if that's the right
description. Some constructive criticism (perhaps a reflection of my
personal tastes), not meant to take away from a good piece of work: at
30 Oct 2007 by David Machanick
I look forward to reading your book and posting to your discussion
group.
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