The Latitude Adjustment: A Dark Sci Fi Comedy Of Global Reshuffle

The Earth just hit the reset button. The superpowers are about to hit each other.In a matter of minutes, a catastrophic tectonic slide known as the "Global Sweep" has completely scrambled the continents. The Sahara Desert is freezing in the Arctic Circle. The Amazon rainforest is baking in the sun. The satellite grid is dead, borders have vanished, and the geopolitical hierarchy has literally been turned upside down.While ordinary people try to survive the immediate climate shock, the remnants of the old world order are desperate to get their power back. In the displaced, freezing slums of New South Carolina (formerly Lagos, Nigeria), a corrupt politician named Senator Kalu has discovered the ultimate post-apocalyptic hustle. Positioning himself as the ruthless gatekeeper of the new world's most valuable scavenged resources, Kalu is playing a dangerous game with stranded American and Russian generals who refuse to let the Cold War die. Stripped of their digital empires, the militaries are quietly preparing to resume their petty wars across the fractured globe using whatever analog nightmares they can piece together from the wreckage. Enter Emeka Okeke, a brilliant structural engineer who just wants to keep his neighborhood warm, and Dr. Silas Martinez, a cynical physicist trying to safely de-orbit the remaining space debris from an Andean basement. When Emeka and Silas uncover the horrifying truth about what the world's leaders are secretly building in the dark, they are faced with an impossible choice. How do you disarm a global standoff when the world has already ended? And more importantly, what happens when the universe decides it isn't quite finished shuffling the deck? The Latitude Adjustment is a razor-sharp, hilarious, and wildly original dark sci-fi comedy. Perfect for fans of Dr. Strangelove and Don't Look Up, it is a fast-paced story about the end of the world, the absurdity of absolute power, and the terrifying realization that human nature is much harder to fix than a broken planet..

Pagina's: 206, Paperback, Independently published