Attention Peakers: The Last Light Trailer

BigTex

I read Last Light recently and thought it was awesome and terrifying.

You can't put it down. There are several tidbits that are really perceptive, like the husband who went into a psychological black hole the more time he spent studying peak oil and how his wife thought he was crazy, until...

Very nice effort.
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alexscarrow · Coal Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 18

thank you.

It was somewhat autobiographical. You really can get quite down thinking about PO, and how utterly buggered we'd be if we carry on the way we are.

I'm working on the sequel right now...set 10 yrs after the events of LL; a mixture of pretty intense and grim stuff, and strangely, moments of bright optimism

BigTex

Aside from the subject matter, which I'm sure all of us here are happy to see in a work of fiction, you are a really good writer.

You've read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, I assume? You captured a bit of the bleakness and fear that he depicted.

The scene in the mall also reminded me a little of "Dawn of the Dead" (the original), even though your book didn't have zombies.
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Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3537 Location: Maine

I just got my copy back from a friend. He had lent it to a friend who lent it to... you get the idea.

It is a great book to lend to those who think you are crazy to talk about peak oil so much.

I think I'll lend it to my sister. She always gives me a hard time about it.
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alexscarrow · Coal Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 18

thanks for passing it around.

Point of interest....a UK film/TV production company have optioned the rights to Last Light. I for one would love to see a primetime movie on television with the subject of PO in the starring role. (Preferably my book....but any other tale on the subject would do)

Can you imagine the conversations around the watercooler the next day at work?

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3537 Location: Maine

That's great! I would love to see it as a movie or TV series!

It's still the best peak oil fiction I've read.

A ripping yarn as you Brits would say.
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