Duke Conklin
Duke Conklin is the collaborative pen name of authors Thomas Dukeman and Richard Fish.
REWRITING THE FUTURE
Currently seeking publication, the GREEN NEXUS series is a speculative sci‑fi thriller inspired by real‑world reports of mysterious green fireballs documented around the globe since 1948.
Confronting a future in which climate change becomes far worse than predicted, the series follows four college students who inherit quantum technology sent back from a dying Earth four and a half centuries in the future. Only they can operate the device, which can manipulate global weather systems, and its discovery triggers a relentless pursuit by governments and power brokers who would weaponize it and guarantee ecological collapse.
Blending quantum theory, physics, and meteorology with humor and satirical bite, GREEN NEXUS delivers a fast‑paced, character‑driven saga of survival, responsibility, and the fight to rewrite a doomed future.
The Green Nexus Idea
Reports of unexplained green fireballs and green flashes have actually been seen on every continent, starting in 1948 and continuing to this day.
In the year 2442, Earth is uninhabitable, thanks to uncontrolled climate change and the wars it caused. Most life is extinct on the dying planet, and the last surviving human beings live on the far side of the moon in a colony called Penumbra. The colony's resources of water and energy are dwindling; the extinction of humanity appears inevitable.
A group of scientists, using breakthrough discoveries in the field of quantum engineering, convince the authorities to back a desperate plan to change history by sending an expedition back in time, equipped with this new technology, to avert the climate change disaster. But this effort will require more than half of humanity's remaining resources, dooming the colony much sooner. The rest of the surviving populace revolts and tries to stop the plan. During a furious battle, the expedition is launched – but the battle interferes and it does not succeed as planned. It arrives at the wrong date and explodes, sending fragments all over the world, arriving at different moments in history, causing the mysterious green flashes and fireballs that have actually been seen.
In the year 2042, four college students are hiking in Brown County State Park, near Bloomington, Indiana. Amber Knight and her boyfriend Jack Tucker, along with Dakota Foster and his girlfriend Akira Dyson, stop at a beautiful scenic overlook; suddenly, a brilliant green flash comes down in front of them. When they investigate, they find the most important remnant of the expedition, a sphere about the size of a softball called “the orb.” It is projecting a holographic image with an emergency message, but the projector is damaged and they only get part of the message – the basic history and only a little about the orb's operations.
The message has an urgent warning: the quantum technology involved was [or will be, for them] misused for purposes of power and wealth by government authorities and private interests. This made the climate problems worse and instigated wars; the result devastated humanity. They must keep the orb from falling into any other hands at all costs.
But the green flash has attracted the attention of government forces (both civilian and military) and unscrupulous private interests who have been investigating the phenomenon for decades.
The four young people try to keep the orb secret and investigate it, learning that the orb can indeed control the weather and has other powers, including weapons. When they use those powers to keep themselves and the orb safe, the forces arrayed against them learn who they are and become certain that they possess an extremely valuable prize. They will stop at nothing to get it.
The only chance for the human race to avoid extinction is for the students to take the orb and use it to achieve the expedition's goals. Their lives torn asunder, they are plunged into a maelstrom of physics, quantum technology, time travel and relentless pursuit, while confronting the very real and extremely dangerous prospects of climate change.
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