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A Climate Carol and Other Cli-Fi Short Stories
Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the reader on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin of a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below . Enjoy these and more stories of global warming, hope, redemption, and a little humor, too. Richard is donating part of the proceeds from sales of this book to The Climate Reality Project.
194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 20, 2018
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Richard Friedman
29 books10 followersI live in Cleveland, Ohio and write climate fiction novels and short stories.
I traveled to New York City for the "Green Festival" in 2014 and sold copies of my debut novel, "Escape to Canamith". I would have made more money if I sold vegan potato chips, but it was a great experience, and I had a lot of fun talking with environmentalists at the festival.
"The Two Worlds of Billy Callahan," hit the market in 2016.
In October 2017, I had the honor of attending the Climate Reality Leadership Training Corps. I spent three days learning about the dangers of climate change and global warming from Al Gore and a team of brilliant scientists. Upon completion of the training, I am now a certified Climate Reality Leader. It's time to stop using fossil fuels. Even President Trump can't stop the growing list of countries that are moving away from fossil fuel. I'm doing everything I can to help save the world.
My newest book is a collection of 12 short stories, featuring “A Climate Carol.”
This is my version of Dicken’s classic tale. The Ghosts of Climate past, Current, and Yet to Come visit our Trump-like character and convince him to change his ways. I’m donating part of the proceeds to The Climate Reality Project
I traveled to New York City for the "Green Festival" in 2014 and sold copies of my debut novel, "Escape to Canamith". I would have made more money if I sold vegan potato chips, but it was a great experience, and I had a lot of fun talking with environmentalists at the festival.
"The Two Worlds of Billy Callahan," hit the market in 2016.
In October 2017, I had the honor of attending the Climate Reality Leadership Training Corps. I spent three days learning about the dangers of climate change and global warming from Al Gore and a team of brilliant scientists. Upon completion of the training, I am now a certified Climate Reality Leader. It's time to stop using fossil fuels. Even President Trump can't stop the growing list of countries that are moving away from fossil fuel. I'm doing everything I can to help save the world.
My newest book is a collection of 12 short stories, featuring “A Climate Carol.”
This is my version of Dicken’s classic tale. The Ghosts of Climate past, Current, and Yet to Come visit our Trump-like character and convince him to change his ways. I’m donating part of the proceeds to The Climate Reality Project
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January 29, 2021
A Climate Carol and Other Cli-Fi Short Stories is, like the title suggests, a climate fiction short story collection. It contains twelve stories, different in form, length and tone, some end on a hopeful note, others not so much, but they all touch upon the climate crisis in some way.
It begins with A Climate Carol, which is version of the novella by Charles Dickens, only with a climate twist to it. Maybe it isn't that original, but I do like it. It works. The main character mr. Drummond isn't exactly like Scrooge, but the twist still makes sense. In fact, this is one of the better stories in the collection in my view.
There are others, like for example Time Traveling Twins which I didn't care much for. That is a story that works on repetition, which I think is always hard to make work well, and in this case it doesn't work well. It just becomes tiresome rather quickly.
The collection ends with the The Torch Passers, whose internal logic doesn't quite work. Without saying too much, there is a certain thing that is passed from character to character with a very specific method, or that is what the reader is told at the beginning, but then it breaks it a few times during the story. That is a clear flaw, but for some reason I still like the journey the story takes me on.
One story was longer than the rest of them, I think it may even have reached a novella length, but I may be mistaken, and that is the story Judgement Day. I thought that was a fascinating story, really very interesting.
Over all I thought the good outweighed the bad in this collection, and I enjoyed reading this for most parts.
It begins with A Climate Carol, which is version of the novella by Charles Dickens, only with a climate twist to it. Maybe it isn't that original, but I do like it. It works. The main character mr. Drummond isn't exactly like Scrooge, but the twist still makes sense. In fact, this is one of the better stories in the collection in my view.
There are others, like for example Time Traveling Twins which I didn't care much for. That is a story that works on repetition, which I think is always hard to make work well, and in this case it doesn't work well. It just becomes tiresome rather quickly.
The collection ends with the The Torch Passers, whose internal logic doesn't quite work. Without saying too much, there is a certain thing that is passed from character to character with a very specific method, or that is what the reader is told at the beginning, but then it breaks it a few times during the story. That is a clear flaw, but for some reason I still like the journey the story takes me on.
One story was longer than the rest of them, I think it may even have reached a novella length, but I may be mistaken, and that is the story Judgement Day. I thought that was a fascinating story, really very interesting.
Over all I thought the good outweighed the bad in this collection, and I enjoyed reading this for most parts.
July 8, 2019
Really great collection of relevant stories. I lived the world building one. I also laughed at the ‘Trump’ references.... without saying it’s a character based on him anyone would still get it. The people on this earth need to wake the hell up and open their eyes. We need to save the planet for future generations or here may not be many left.
Narrations was great.
I was voluntarily provided this review copy at no charge by the author, publisher and or narrator.
Narrations was great.
I was voluntarily provided this review copy at no charge by the author, publisher and or narrator.
June 11, 2020
Actual Rating 2.5 Stars
It is great to see Cli-Fi as we need so much more stories like these! The Trump satire was great and really funny too.
Despite the fact that the stories are very US-centred in their wording and atmosphere, they make a lot of really good points, even if a lot of them are very on the nose most of the time. I was disappointed that many of the stories were lacking in worldbuilding and suffered underdeveloped and inconsistent characters that made the overall stories differ.
The settings were quite original and interesting but a lot of blatant mistakes were getting me out of the story many times. The mistakes were not spelling, punctuation or formatting which all are done very well, but rather the details that were very disruptive due to being too much of a "current situation in the world" remarks rather than a creative reimagining of what we are all experiencing now with Climate Change.
I still enjoyed the stories but was disappointed in the end as it was in many ways more telling and not as much showing.
Please, check this collection of short stories they are still really good but just be repaired that some will need more suspension of disbelief than others. Great compendium nevertheless!
It is great to see Cli-Fi as we need so much more stories like these! The Trump satire was great and really funny too.
Despite the fact that the stories are very US-centred in their wording and atmosphere, they make a lot of really good points, even if a lot of them are very on the nose most of the time. I was disappointed that many of the stories were lacking in worldbuilding and suffered underdeveloped and inconsistent characters that made the overall stories differ.
The settings were quite original and interesting but a lot of blatant mistakes were getting me out of the story many times. The mistakes were not spelling, punctuation or formatting which all are done very well, but rather the details that were very disruptive due to being too much of a "current situation in the world" remarks rather than a creative reimagining of what we are all experiencing now with Climate Change.
I still enjoyed the stories but was disappointed in the end as it was in many ways more telling and not as much showing.
Please, check this collection of short stories they are still really good but just be repaired that some will need more suspension of disbelief than others. Great compendium nevertheless!
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