I decided to try 'Firewalkers' because I wanted to see how Tchaikovsky handled the novella (the book is pages) and because it spoke to a topical theme: the very wealthy insulating themselves from the consequences of the environmental collapse that they have become wealthy by accelerating. I'm certain that the people funding Climate Change Denial see climate change as an opportunity to winnow the /5(7). 11 rows · And in his new novella, the prolific British science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky /5(). · ‘Firewalkers’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky Posted on 30/06/ by Mike Finn A novella that punches above its weight, delivering a well-imagined, skilfully revealed future where a young and poor underclass of ‘Firewalkers’ risk their lives to service the global billionaire elite as they prepare to escape a dying Earth and leave the rest of us to burn.
Adrian Tchaikovsky. Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, and headed off to university in Reading to study psychology and zoology, where he subsequently ended up in law. Adrian has since worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds and now writes full-time. He also lives in Leeds, with his wife and son. Firewalkers, the review. It seems like I've been meaning to read Adrian Tchaikovsky's books for ages. I've heard nothing but good things about his Shadows of the Apt series, a few co-bloggers of mine adore Guns of the Dawn, and a favourite author of mine once referred to Tchaikovsky as a "genius".So when the chance came to review this short, ~page story and see what all the fuss. There can be little doubt that Adrian Tchaikovsky is among the most talented, creative and also versatile SFF authors of today. In Firewalkers he crafts an utterly bleak world, devastated by runaway global warming that has rendered huge regions of the Earth uninhabitable desert, complete dead zones.
Firewalkers is my second novella from Adrian Tchaikovsky and it appears to be a format he is very comfortable with. Global warming has heated the planet so much that an expanding band around the equator has effectively become completely uninhabitable. The privileged rich are escaping to a space ships/stations orbiting Earth but the catch is that to do so they must use space elevators and they have to be located on the equator. ‘Firewalkers’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky Posted on 30/06/ by Mike Finn A novella that punches above its weight, delivering a well-imagined, skilfully revealed future where a young and poor underclass of ‘Firewalkers’ risk their lives to service the global billionaire elite as they prepare to escape a dying Earth and leave the rest of us to burn. And in his new novella, the prolific British science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky extrapolates both themes to their logical (and tragic) conclusions. In Firewalkers, he paints a picture of a dismal, dystopian future. An unkind reviewer might call this “climate porn.” An evocative picture of the future that some might call “climate porn”.
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