My first future takes place in the year 2047, after 3,000 nuclear bombs that were smuggled in by truck and strategically placed in major cities all over the world have effectively destroyed the world, turning almost every city into a waste land and wiping out the economic and industrial structure that allows today's developed countries to enjoy a standard of living so very much higher than most of the rest of the world.
The detonation of these nuclear weapons leaves the world in an age where scavengers are set against those people trying to pull their family and world back to something that hardly resembles the past greatness of the world. The Russians are the culprits and they give several other countries the backing to help with the initial destruction. The countries of the world have ganged up against each other accusing each other of being greedy and using up most of the world's resources.
The developed countries have now been placed in quarantine by the rest of the world, and any attempts to try to re-organize and re-build them are ruthlessly disrupted. These countries have returned to a fishing/agrarian level society with government by communal consensus. But this is the mere background to a remarkable future of two young women, myself and Lorena, trying to find our own way and life answers within this community, underneath the strong influence of the town elder, one of the last survivors who remembers what the developed world was like before the bombs. Lorena and I are close friends but are two very different personalities, and each of us reacts to the opportunity to 'do something' to those who are maintaining the quarantine
It is many years later and history is at times comically rewritten by the elders who have lived through the.......
