[alexscarrow]

spotted it. Thanks for that.

Hopefully the book will lead more members to this forum as well.

[medicvet]

Sounds like a fascinating read to me..how do I buy it?

And I'm sorry, but I LOVED the dies the fire trilogy by SM Stirling, and am going to eventually see about getting other books by him.

Lights Out was an okay online novel..I found it much like eating popcorn..not really nutritious but good to snack on.

[alexscarrow]

Well, at the moment it's not for sale in North America/Canada. You can buy it from Amazon.co.uk...or, you can buy directly from my website, the bonus being I'll sign and write a personalised message.

It's a bit much of me to say it's a good book...but really, if you're after a novel that puts into words everything all of us Peak Oilers have been thinking about....then maybe this'll be a good buy for you

best

Alex Scarrow

[Revi]

For those of us that aren't going to buy it online, give us an address we can send a bit of our depreciating dollar to. I love a good peak oil novel. The only other I know of is Charlie MacArthur's The Awakening. (Self Published)

[alexscarrow]

Hi Revi,

if you go to http://www.scarrowshop.co.uk/

you can buy it directly off me - cut out all the fat middle men. I'll sign it, dedicate it, etc etc.

And I'm sure it will scare the crep out of you as it seems to have done with most people...judging by the emails I've been getting of recent.

[qwanta]

Hi,

Just wanted to say: amazing book! Couldn't put it down, read it in 2 days.
Just posted a 5-star review at amazon.


Spoilers ahead:

The book ended on a hopeful note, but it felt a little less plausible than the rest of the book which had a no-holds barred, realistic feel to it. It also seemed to bar the possibility of a sequel (or 2); I would have really liked to know what happens after the 1st week covered by the novel.
But overall, great; educational and entertaining. Thank you, and hope it will be more widely discovered.

[TheDude]

Available Stateside now: Last Light

[Revi]

I just ordered Last Light. It should be a good read. I'll pass it on to friends. I am amazed that this is the first real peak oil fiction to hit the marketplace. There have been two major documentaries, at least, but still no peak oil movies as yet either.

I love a good book, and I hope I have it by the middle of December, so I can read it over the Christmas holidays.

[alexscarrow]

Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know Amazon was now stocking it state-side.

Yes...please...spread the word on your side of the pond. Obviously I'm after additional sales, but more importantly I want Peak Oil to have a much higher profile. Whilst documentaries and essays are useful tools to spread the word, a piece of mass-market fiction is more likely to punch through at an emotional level and engage those sheeple who'd rather think the world will always remain this comfortable.

LastLight has a chance of doing that...I wrote a book that really, genuinely seems to scare those readers who've never heard of PO.

Good. They need to be scared.

Anyway...hope you 'enjoy' it.

[skyemoor]

I'm wondering if this is the fictional side of Oil Shockwave?

[eXpat]

I forgot to comment on this before, but is a very good book, is a very good buy; also, i read it last june/July when the subprime started and it scared the sh*t out of me

[Revi]

The book has come in, but we are going to wrap it up and put it under the tree for Christmas. I'll tell you what I thought of it after the Christmas break. This is what the peak oil movement needed, a good novel about it. Now if they could make it into a movie, we'd really get the word out.

[mgibbons19]

Of course, if they make a movie as bad as "Day After Tomorrow" it might hurt the cause more than help it.

[Revi]

I really liked the book. The three (or 4 if you include the hitman) plot lines really moved it along. I particularly liked the action. This book really pulled you along! It is exactly what the peak oil movement needs to get the word out. I loved the part that Andy had been railing about peak oil for years and nobody in his family believed him. That sounds like my life. My sister told me last night that this Peak Oil thing was getting old and it was time to move on to some other obsession. They just don't get it.

Great book! We have to get it out there a bit more in the US. It reads well, and will capture the interest of a lot of people, if they see it in more places. Send a copy to Oprah! Please!

I would live to see the sequel. What does a post peak world look like? Can we imagine a future without oil?

Thanks, Alex. You have done what a million graphs and charts couldn't beging to do. You have made this peak oil problem into a story. People can get that. And a ripping yarn at that!

[alexscarrow]

thank you Revi.

Yup, it needs to get into the hands of someone like Oprah.

I'm toying with a sequal, but it really depends if my publisher feel Last Light has sold enough copies to prove there's a market for it.

I'm also considering doing an Americanized version of it, as I suspect it'll never take off over there unless I replace London for NY.

[Revi]

I was going to suggest an Americanized version, but perhaps that could be a different book with the same basic story. I think it would be hard to do, since you know the places you are writing about so well.

I reccomended it to an English guy from Manchester we met yesterday. He and his wife were on holiday here in Maine. They were going snowshoeing, and we talked about the book.

The Transition Towns seem to be a neat thing in England. Could you write something about them, and how they save people from peak oil? They are already doing something about it. I believe the guy's name is Rob Hopkins. Here's a link to a youtube where he talks about peak oil and what the transition towns are doing to get ready for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQF09NG00V8

He has some great things to say about peak oil and how they are getting ready for it. They have a monetary system starting and are figuring out a way to make it through this thing now. I love people like that. It seems like the UK has a lot of people who are peak oil aware.

[TheDude]

Going to put up any excerpts? Quite keen on doomer porn but some of it is, ahem, badly written. No copies for me to thumb through at the local libraries or Powell's Books, which is the biggest independent book seller in the US.

Next in queue for me is Kim Stanley Robinson's Global Warming novel Forty Signs of Rain. Already enjoy his writing.

[alexscarrow]

I'd dearly love to, but I think I need to get that okayed by the publisher 1st.

[morph]

Having got this book for christmas I sat about reading it on that sleepy christmas day afternoon everyone seems to have intending to read the first chapter or 2. I Quickly got engrossed and only 2 days later i had finished the book. Have to say it was a cracking read. It made you believe that everything it said could, maybe will happen sometime. It's a thing that being peak oil aware seems to do is make you look at everything differently and this book certainly reinforced that. Afterfinishing the book I found myself yesterday looking around our kitchen thinking how many days food we had in the cupboards or what improvised weapons i could quickly make from stuff in the garage and shed. IMHO the 'sideline' story of the global conspiracy distracted some of the attention from the actual issue but it certainly made for a good twist in the read, as well the UK is still producing a fairly significant amount of it's own oil where as this is slightly underestimated in the book but given the decline rates of the North sea i will not doubt it will be long before that part of the story is true. The book would definitely make a good movie.

[alexscarrow]

I'd like to see a PO movie, instead of the usual natural disaster type affairs. I guess the world needs a jolt.

Funny thing this morning, I was listening to Radio4 (major UK radio staion) this morning and they had a panel of economists on making predictions for 'the issue of 2008' and one of them said 'Peak Oil'.

Certainly energy security will be atleast as hot a new topic as global warming, if not more so.

One gets the feeling that by the end of 2008 'Peak Oil' will be a term familiar to the grognards out there.