Survival Year

Three people, Viper, Kat, and Matt, struggle to get an intelligent system of global governance up and running. Their lightning fast, unpredictable journey may change how you view our global future. Global democracy and transformational global change are within our reach now. Survival Year is a story about this transformation but also a love story of two people who find each other in a time of danger. Witness global transformation through the eyes of Viper, Katarina, who discovers a gift within herself for global politics, and Matt, an ordinary guy on a mission. Explore the opportunities offered by a time of unprecedented innovation in technology, the rise of global ethics, and the shared reality of global crisis.

Three people, Viper, Kat, and Matt, struggle to get an intelligent system of global governance up and running. Their lightning fast, unpredictable journey may change how you view our global future. The convergence of computing power, the internet, global principles and recognition of environmental catastrophe enable them to galvanise people all over the world to make a stand. But the new global politics makes powerful enemies, and the protection of Viper is vital if the the scheme is to be saved from certain destruction. As the project starts to create a complex new governance system, a dangerous backlash from the hidden networks of crime and national spy networks endangers the leaders and threatens to overwhelm them all. Global democracy and transformational global change are within our reach now. Survival Year is a story about this transformation but also a love story. Witness global transformation through the eyes of Viper, the mysterious netizen, Katarina, who discovers a gift within herself for global politics, and Matt, an ordinary guy on a mission. Explore the opportunities offered by a time of unprecedented innovation in technology, the rise of global ethics, and the shared reality of global crisis.

Jennifer Shearer French has a doctorate in cyber ethics from the University of Auckland, and is a writer of futuristic science fiction. She sees science fiction as a form of global social activism, where ideas for change can be presented through telling a great story. Her ideas for global change are based both on research and recognition of a need for people to stretch their thinking towards new horizons in technology, collaboration, and politics. And she wants to make the process fun!