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An Elevator Pitch: The Overview Effect, A New Perspective

An Amish genius. A space elevator. A winter that lasts five hundred years.

Y is Amish. He lives apart from the modern world, works the land the old way, and has quietly built the most important machine in human history: an elevator that climbs from the Earth to space.

He's going to need it. Volcanoes are erupting. Earth's magnetic shield is failing, and cancers are thriving. Scientists predict that photosynthesis will stop for two to five hundred years. Y is planning for a winter that lasts decades, and he can't survive it alone.

So he does something no one has ever done. He takes the people he needs, the ones with the skills and resources to rebuild, up his elevator to see the Earth from space, all at once. Astronauts call it the Overview Effect. It changes everyone who feels it. Y is counting on it to change enough of them in time.

A big-idea science fiction novella you can finish in an evening. For readers of Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise and Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary.

The Second Intelligent Species: The Cyclical Earth

The Earth burns. Nick and Beth survive. Almost nobody else does.

A few centuries from now, twelve billion people live on factory-grown meat and have forgotten how the world actually works. Then the fire comes. Nick and Beth go looking for other survivors and find that most people can't hunt, can't farm and can't adapt. The groups that can don't want strangers.

To stay alive they'll have to relearn the oldest human skills, build a clan from almost nothing, and face the question underneath it all: is nature in control, or is God?

For readers of The Road, One Second After, Alas, Babylon and Lucifer's Hammer.