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West Palm Beach, FL – What happens when the world’s oil reserves finally run out? Did you know that without oil we can only produce enough food to feed 500 million people? That means 6 billion people would die, and tens of millions more would perish from cold, heat, lack of medical care . . . and killer mobs.
New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten’s new thriller, The Omega Project, opens with a Die-Off that wipes out most of humanity. And that’s just the opening act…
Imagine yourself as one of the Die-Off’s survivors. Fusion energy is the key to humanity’s future and the computer you programmed will oversee mining operations of a critical element on Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa. To prepare for the mission, you and six men and women train in a habitat beneath the Ross Sea in Antarctica. During the last thirty days you and the crew will be cryogenically frozen — a trial run for the space mission. You awaken to find the habitat sinking, the ice gone and 12 million years have passed! Humanity went extinct, evolution has run amok, a new intelligence is in its infancy – and the computer that you programmed to keep an eye on things while you were asleep has developed a god-complex.
Publishers Weekly calls The Omega Project “an exuberant thriller.” Reviewers have called it an “epic tale” and yet the author calls it a warning of things that could transpire in the next fifteen years if we continue our march toward extinction.
Says Alten, “Peak Oil is as real as gravity; just because the powers-that-be in Washington and Wall Street prefer to deny it only increases its eventual impact. In war there is a common enemy; in a natural catastrophe there is a bond of humanity to aid those in need. In a Die-Off, it’s every family for itself.
“The first sign of trouble will be power outages which evolve into rolling blackouts. Government officials will assure the public that oil reserves will last another thirty years, even as prices spike and the lines at the local gas station stretch for miles. The grocery store becomes a battlefront as every non-perishable left on the shelf is fought over. These scenarios will degenerate into civil disorder and mandatory curfews, unleashing the military. The first long winter without heat will wipe out families living in the Snowbelt. No more potable water; no more hospital services or prescriptions. The government will shut down, society will collapse, and now it is officially every family for itself. Instead of enacting programs that could stop the die-off, our elected officials are holding the hands of ‘big oil,’ effectively leading society over the cliff.”
About the author:
Steve Alten, a native of Philadelphia, earned a bachelor’s degree from Penn State, a master’s degree from the University of Delaware, and a doctorate from Temple University. Alten is the bestselling author of the MEG series. The series is an international best seller and Hollywood has purchased the movie rights. Alten is also the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a free nationwide teen reading program.
Barnes & Noble named the book as one of its top four selections for summer 2013.
Watch the book trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwd-pU_fMxM&feature=youtu.be
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