Martin Knox

Broschiertes Buch

Animal Farm 2

Beschreibung

Animal Farm 2 continues Animal Farm, George Orwell's 1945 political satire, updating it within a broader context of the Cold War and its aftermath, with superpowers' environmental movements. Animal Farm 2 - satirical fiction The farm is on tropical Caruba, an island controlled by the Social Republic near the Democratic Union, who are in a Cold War with them. Pigs lead an animal rebellion then takeover and ruthlessly exploit the animal workers. When the farm animals discover coal on the farm and mine it to supply electricity from a power station constructed on the farm, they become embroiled in the superpowers' climate manoeuvring. When coal mining could be stopped due to global warming fears, the animal workers study climate science and realise that they are victims of world superpower totalitarianism. They prepare to fight for animal liberation, wanting freedom at any cost. The satire is humorous with animal characters based on leaders of superpower nations, animal liberation and climate campaigns. Farm animals investigate philosophies of climate science within a new paradigm. A Novel by Martin Knox ANIMAL FARM 2 (2021) Pre-publication review by Brad Ahern, Science Educator. Following Orwell's masterful satire, Animal Farm, Martin Knox continues the story in the aftermath of the Animal Revolution up to modern times, with an insightful account of the progress and difficulties of the Socialist Animal Collective. An action-packed story of farm animals seeking liberation. They mine coal and their work is restricted by bourgeois management and superpower influence. They discover and carefully explain a paradigm shift within climate science. Another prescient and engrossing cautionary fable satirising the threats posed by modern-day totalitarianism and globalism.

Autor

Martin Knox grew up on a farm in Somerset, England. He rode a horse and played rugby. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Birmingham University. His work with energy was in a nuclear power station, in petroleum engineering in Canada, in coal mine development and in transportation. He researched alternative systems of government at Imperial College, London. He became a high school teacher and wrote science textbooks with energy emphasis, published by the Queensland Department of Education.This book is his tenth book published. He has been writing fiction and satirical novels full-time since 2013: speculative, love, politics, crime, sport, totalitarianism, science and technology. He is involved in public policy-making, has proposed an underground railway for Brisbane, developed ideas for mitigating flooding of the Brisbane River and an anti-memoir of his spiritual enlightenment following Friedrich Nietzsche. He has written about the philosophy of climate science from a phenomenological viewpoint. He discusses current issues at U3A and has studied philosophy with students at the University of Queensland. He attends community development forums. He blogs ideas from his books and relates them to events in the news. He writes letters, plays the guitar, plays chess and walks in the park by the river where he lives. He reads classical novels, watches movies and enjoys The Big Bang Theory.He is divorced with children and grandchildren.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Novel Ideas
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780648993025
• ISBN-10: 0648993027
• Artikelnr.: 61961458