Forgotness

Post-glacial isostatic rebound occurs as polar ice melts. This allows the dormant volcanos to become active again, completing the ice melt. Northern Europe is particularly badly affected by the floods that follow.What is left of the United Kingdom survives in the highlands of Scotland and the Pennines. A ticketing system has allowed the rich to buy their way to safety. The remaining citizen refugees are bombed to take pressure off the walls built around this new nation of Topland.The religions fight for supremacy in the new world as Armageddonist Evangelicals strive to finish it.There are survivors on the hilltops of England, fighting the floods, radiation and hunger, searching the waters for tools and old technology to help them survive. They dream of being allowed into Topland.One such group has a plan.But Felix would prefer a pint.******** Versions ********2018- post second edit after first readers comments2017- post first edit2016 - original

Felix has reached Scotland and is under the protection of Linux but surrounded by enemies.Felix also, has set off for Scotland and the journey is not easy.This is the second book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.YA climate action adventure. Sea levels have risen 200 metres and England is underwater. What remains of the UK is divided: Scotland is ruled by remnants of the Tory Party, Wales has been taken over by Scientologists and Armageddonist Evangelicals are arriving in force. Still, there are those who survive on the few hilltops above seawater. Felix is sent north to find a way to higher ground.

Their world, the island, is sinking, being eaten by the sea, surrounded and attacked by monsters that stalk the night, and increasingly the day. Felix and Hana have promised each other to do whatever it takes to stay alive and stay together. But which, stay together or stay alive, is more important as the last days come upon them?This is the fourth book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.As the polar ice caps melted, dormant volcanoes beneath the frozen poles became active speeding up the melting process. Waters rise, not one metre in a hundred years, but a hundred meters in one year. The historically dominant countries of the northern hemisphere are underwater, their populations are the new refugees. The balance of power has shifted south and battles rage between those wanting to save the world and those that want to finish it.Its not a sequel, barely an equel and possibly a prequel. I'm not sure what the rules are for these. But its certainly one or more of them, following on from Forgotness books 1, 2 and 3.I wasn't expecting this, but then i wasn't expecting COVID either, but it happened so I thought I would not get a better chance to write a sequel to Forgotness. So i began writing in March 2020 and finished In September 2020. A YA climate action adventure?And yes, muddlingly, This is another Felix.

Felix and Hanna have gone their separate ways: Hanna, on board the sailing ship 'Surt's eld ar slakt' heads north while Felix walks through the algae lit lava tubes under the ocean. Both are being persued.This is the fifth book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.As the polar ice caps melt, dormant volcanoes beneath the frozen poles became active speeding up the melting process. Waters rise, not one metre in a hundred years, but a hundred meters in one year. The historically dominant countries of the northern hemisphere are underwater, their populations are the new refugees. The balance of power has shifted south and battles rage between those wanting to save the world and those that want to finish it.Its not a sequel, barely an equel and possibly a prequel. I'm not sure what the rules are for these. But its certainly one or more of them, following on from Forgotness books 1, 2 and 3.I wasn't expecting this, but then i wasn't expecting COVID either, but it happened so I thought I would not get a better chance to write a sequel to Forgotness. So i began writing in March 2020 and finished In September 2020. A YA climate action adventure?And yes, muddlingly, This is another Felix.