Short science fiction about you

 

Short science fiction about you

“It is there, it is right there!” 

Screamed a voice from behind. As I turned back, there stood a middle aged man, pointing his index finger at a nut, that had fallen from the tree, and he wanted to secure it before anyone else did. By cautioning me about it, he laid his claim on the nut.

It was chestnut. Fully ripe and brown, with a surface that glittered and was highly reflective. It almost slipped from my hand twice. While I was walking towards this middle aged man to let him keep it.

As the man held it and began feeling it with his finger tips. His fingers stopped on feeling a deep crack, he pressed it hard until its seed popped out. Like a pea from the pea pod.

He stared at me, I guess not for more than a few minutes, then as if he had made up his mind. He asked me to take it to the field and sow it there. He could easily make out the stupefied look in my face, and without wasting a moment, he said, “You have to sow it. Because only you can. You are the last one, everyone else I requested has declined my request. So please take it and sow it in that field. But before you do that, look around, and you may realise why I am requesting you to sow it there. Maybe you would, at least that is my hope!”

I took a moment, looked around. I was standing in the middle of a huge grassland, where only this chestnut tree grew, taller than the grass blades. Most of the other chestnut trees had either been cut down in the name of development or they had failed to grow any further due to Global Warming and Climate Change. And when I realised this tragedy, I looked at the chestnut seed in my hand. The future of chestnut trees was not in my hand, but that of Earth and human species, in a way, was certainly in my hand. It was just the matter of taking the right step and acting upon the advice of the stranger.

But right now, in the given situation, we were sharing the same fate, the fate of an uncertain future, the fate of exposing Earth and humans to extremely high heat waves, if we did not act now, and act in time. With this realisation I decided to sow the seed and tend to it; and ensure, at least I plant many more chestnut trees, in the grassland, that once used to be a jungle of trees.

But now, nothing of that true jungle remained, because now it is a jungle of grass and bitter weeds.

Finally I heeded the stranger’s plea and I chose to save the Earth and make the area around me greener and a little cooler. And I thank the stranger for this.

Maybe we all will not come across this stranger, but we all will come across barren lands, treeless pastures, and maybe a chestnut tree, then please do take a moment to look around and plant a few trees. If not many.

Then indeed you shall have played your part well, and hopefully the Earth we let our future generations inherit from us will be less hot. There will still be the chestnut tree and the stranger waiting for somebody to plant his chestnut seeds and allow him to take on more important journeys.

In 2023, when Global Warming is at its maximum and climate change is disrupting lives Globally. It becomes imperative on part of each one of us, that we participate in good change, and contribute towards building a planet that is still green, still clean and still habitable. If we can do this in whatever little measures we can, then please consider you have met the stranger and you have planted his chestnut seed in the most fertile corner of the land. The land of hope, where all of us make this commitment that we will not let the Earth perish, we will not be mere spectators and do nothing. Because it is a home we all share!

And in pursuit of this commitment I wrote my science fiction novel, They Loved in 2075, where you will not come across the chestnut tree and the stranger, but you will find yourself in the pasture, where you are offered the choice, either to act now or act never.

Explore the science fiction novel, They Loved in 2075, and journey into a world of romance, highly advanced self aware machines, mutations, extreme global warming, and know whether or not humans will choose to marry synthetic men and women in future. 

Just like I chose to plant the chestnut seed, in 2075, humans will have to make many choices in order to still remain and feel human. There will be many tough choices that humankind will have to make, and most of them will be tougher than choosing to plant the seed or just discard it.

And this is exactly where the science Fiction novel, They Loved in 2075 is very special. It makes you experience this state of emotional dilemma, by making you live the character of Saabir ( the male protagonist ) in this science fiction novel, who desperately loves a beautiful woman. But in the jungle of self aware and human like machines, this beautiful woman struggles to express her feelings of love. 

Due to her over exposure to self aware machines, she appears to have lost her native feminine feelings, her tenderness, and for some reason she always fails to say, “I love you Saabir!” The way a human female should.

While Saabir is dealing with this emotional tsunami, he is tasked to save his clan and that of his girl friend’s clan from extinction. His is a fight, quite unlike any other fight. 

It is more about finding an equanimity with his raging emotional surges and then taming them in the midst of atrocities being met by his clan and that of his girl friend’s clan. And for him waging a war with the enemy that lies outside, is not possible unless he has won the battle between him and his emotions.

They Loved in 2075, is a very different science fiction novel, because it is for everyone who loves, and for everyone who is a responsible reader.

If Global warming keeps rising at the current pace, and climate change becomes irreversible, that shall be the greatest misfortune humanity shall ever suffer. And this will be a misfortune that we all shall share equally. And in this situation the following words of French writer shall be rendered meaningless:

“In the misfortune of our best friends, we find something which is not displeasing to us.”

Do you know why it shall be rendered meaningless?

Simply because, when there will be no humans left on Earth, there will be no friends and foes left either.

I am sure, then the Earth will heal itself after a century or so, but there shall be no trace of us humans, anywhere. That will be sad, because we were created from the star dust and we had the potential to reside among the stars, but we shall have lost our only chance to be the masters of our own destiny. And for humanity, I cannot contemplate any tragedy bigger than this.

We all know what adverse consequences Global Warming and Climate Change can have on planet Earth. And these are not random or frivolous consequences that I am referring to, these are logical consequences that I want to point your attention to.

Global Warming and Climate Change would lead to extreme heat, this will cause the Arctic glaciers and glaciers in other parts of the Northern Pole, to melt. Eventually leading to flooding in coastal areas. It will also change the Global weather patterns, which would lead to poor or no crops at all. And when that happens, humanity will find itself pitched against a dead-end, where they shall now have just one exit point left: to wait and watch. 

But in 2023, I believe the ball is still in our court and we can do a lot. Only if we are willing to understand the catastrophe we are staring into if we do not act.

And let us seek inspiration from Mr. Thomas Huxley, who once said, “Logical consequences are the scarecrows of the fools and the beacons of wise men.” 

It is our moment to prove whether we are fools or wise men and women capable enough to understand the logical consequences of Climate Change, and act to protect our future and the future of human generations to come. 

Let us remember, “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” Let it stay that way, let the grandeur extend its lease and offer us a chance to live and thrive on this planet. Perhaps the only place where this kind of grandeur exists. Sometimes it is important to realise, “That the art of good living is not only about saying true things, but we should be able to call these true things by their correct names as well.”

In 2023, our callousness towards Climate Change is proof that we are either not saying the true things or we are calling them by wrong names. I know what it is, but I want you to pause, and think about what I meant, and where we are going wrong!

That is all, and this shall definitely save us and our planet too. And I make this appeal, while being totally aware, “Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.” Only that in this case, even if you do not wish to hear it, you will have to hear it.

There is no other choice!