Attention Peakers: The Last Light Trailer

eXpat · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 973

I forgot to comment on this before, but is a very good book, is a very good buy; also, i read it last june/July when the subprime started and it scared the sh*t out of me Smile

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3259 Location: Maine

The book has come in, but we are going to wrap it up and put it under the tree for Christmas. I'll tell you what I thought of it after the Christmas break. This is what the peak oil movement needed, a good novel about it. Now if they could make it into a movie, we'd really get the word out.
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mgibbons19 · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1065

Of course, if they make a movie as bad as "Day After Tomorrow" it might hurt the cause more than help it.

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3259 Location: Maine

I really liked the book. The three (or 4 if you include the hitman) plot lines really moved it along. I particularly liked the action. This book really pulled you along! It is exactly what the peak oil movement needs to get the word out. I loved the part that Andy had been railing about peak oil for years and nobody in his family believed him. That sounds like my life. My sister told me last night that this Peak Oil thing was getting old and it was time to move on to some other obsession. They just don't get it.

Great book! We have to get it out there a bit more in the US. It reads well, and will capture the interest of a lot of people, if they see it in more places. Send a copy to Oprah! Please!

I would live to see the sequel. What does a post peak world look like? Can we imagine a future without oil?

Thanks, Alex. You have done what a million graphs and charts couldn't beging to do. You have made this peak oil problem into a story. People can get that. And a ripping yarn at that!
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alexscarrow · Coal Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 18

thank you Revi.

Yup, it needs to get into the hands of someone like Oprah.

I'm toying with a sequal, but it really depends if my publisher feel Last Light has sold enough copies to prove there's a market for it.

I'm also considering doing an Americanized version of it, as I suspect it'll never take off over there unless I replace London for NY.

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3259 Location: Maine

I was going to suggest an Americanized version, but perhaps that could be a different book with the same basic story. I think it would be hard to do, since you know the places you are writing about so well.

I reccomended it to an English guy from Manchester we met yesterday. He and his wife were on holiday here in Maine. They were going snowshoeing, and we talked about the book.

The Transition Towns seem to be a neat thing in England. Could you write something about them, and how they save people from peak oil? They are already doing something about it. I believe the guy's name is Rob Hopkins. Here's a link to a youtube where he talks about peak oil and what the transition towns are doing to get ready for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQF09NG00V8

He has some great things to say about peak oil and how they are getting ready for it. They have a monetary system starting and are figuring out a way to make it through this thing now. I love people like that. It seems like the UK has a lot of people who are peak oil aware.
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TheDude · Last edited by TheDude on Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:37 pm; edited 1 time in total

Going to put up any excerpts? Quite keen on doomer porn but some of it is, ahem, badly written. No copies for me to thumb through at the local libraries or Powell's Books, which is the biggest independent book seller in the US.

Next in queue for me is Kim Stanley Robinson's Global Warming novel Forty Signs of Rain. Already enjoy his writing.
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alexscarrow · Coal Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 18

I'd dearly love to, but I think I need to get that okayed by the publisher 1st.

morph · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 105

Having got this book for christmas I sat about reading it on that sleepy christmas day afternoon everyone seems to have intending to read the first chapter or 2. I Quickly got engrossed and only 2 days later i had finished the book. Have to say it was a cracking read. It made you believe that everything it said could, maybe will happen sometime. It's a thing that being peak oil aware seems to do is make you look at everything differently and this book certainly reinforced that. Afterfinishing the book I found myself yesterday looking around our kitchen thinking how many days food we had in the cupboards or what improvised weapons i could quickly make from stuff in the garage and shed. IMHO the 'sideline' story of the global conspiracy distracted some of the attention from the actual issue but it certainly made for a good twist in the read, as well the UK is still producing a fairly significant amount of it's own oil where as this is slightly underestimated in the book but given the decline rates of the North sea i will not doubt it will be long before that part of the story is true. The book would definitely make a good movie.

alexscarrow · Coal Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 18

I'd like to see a PO movie, instead of the usual natural disaster type affairs. I guess the world needs a jolt.

Funny thing this morning, I was listening to Radio4 (major UK radio staion) this morning and they had a panel of economists on making predictions for 'the issue of 2008' and one of them said 'Peak Oil'.

Certainly energy security will be atleast as hot a new topic as global warming, if not more so.

One gets the feeling that by the end of 2008 'Peak Oil' will be a term familiar to the grognards out there.

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3259 Location: Maine

It took a movie to get global warming out there. Your book would be a great movie. The action would lend itself to a movie version really nicely. My wife is reading it now and she doesn't ususally like my books, but this one is really getting her hooked.

We need to get Last Light to the US, so that people can read it.
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alexscarrow · Coal Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 18

Yeah....I really hoped my publisher would get the book into the states. At the moment that's not going to happen.

However...it does seem to be getting into the states and Canada, grey-imports of some sort.

Out of interest....I don't know if anyone here checks out 'Digg'. I've submitted the trailer as a digged article, and it would certainly help me out if any digg members here would give it a vote.

http://digg.com/politics/A_trailer_for_a_Peak_Oil_novel

DomusAlbion

I have a copy of this book that I got from Sweden and I'm willing to sell it to whomever PMs me.

$15 + shipping.
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Lumpy

My husband had a hard time getting a copy of this book, and paid quite a bit more than $15, as I recall - so I'd be surprised if you don't have a taker on this Smile

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alexscarrow · Coal Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 18

...in which case, Lumpy...I dearly hope you enjoy it Smile

If not, I'll come over in person and refund you.

Very Happy