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Humanity's Test

by Thomas Imes


In Humanity's Test, Thomas Imes gives us a glimpse into a future world with weather that is off-the-charts and out-of-control.

The character development in this book is weak. I would have enjoyed getting to know the characters better on a personal level, and that would have made Humanity's Test a better book for me. I did learn a lot of things about the weather and meteorologists, and their study of the weather. I found that informative and interesting.

In the book, the weather has gotten extreme over the past thirty-five years. We have now entered into an interglacial period, otherwise known as a "desert age." The weather continues to get worse with highs in the western U.S., reaching above 125 degrees and expected to rise. Two-thirds of the U.S. has become a desert wasteland with one-third of the earth a desert.

In these high temperatures crops will not grow, forest fires run amok, buildings are burning down all over the cities (buildings are not built to withstand this kind of heat), and the high temps are boiling the oceans. If the weather continues to get worse, civilization will cease functioning. Five million people are losing their lives each year in the U.S. from heat and starvation.

Bad weather means shortages of water, food, electricity and other resources. It causes high unemployment, and businesses can not find customers to sell to, so they go out of business, driving unemployment even higher. The future looks bad for everyone.

Katrina Ransel and Mark Spencer are meteorologists working together, traveling the World, to make it rain. They are in the business of controlling the weather. Soon rain-making becomes out of control. Countries are using the weather as a weapon. This has created an unstable environment for the World.

This is war, man against nature, and man is losing. Creating rain has been only a temporary fix. Now Katrina and Mark must deal with the hole in the ozone. It must be corrected—and soon. Time is running out for mankind.

The Book
Infinity Publishing
February 16, 2007
Trade Paper
0-7414-3757-0
Science Fiction
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The Reviewer

Connie Harris
Reviewed 2007
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