By the year 2045, runaway climate change is overtaking the world, and the generation that has inherited this disaster has turned on those who ignored the warnings given half a century earlier.
All “Tippers” – people born before the year 2000 – must stand trial for climate crimes, facing the death penalty if found guilty. Nobody sent to Audit Camp 71 has ever been pardoned – but the elderly weather scientist Jason Hall has volunteered to go. He’s got a plan. He wants to prove that some Tippers are genuinely innocent.
Every day for a fortnight Jason will face the harsh reality of the crimes his generation committed, as judged by the Audit Bench. But his main challenge won’t just be convincing the court. He’ll have to convince the famously merciless Auditor General… who is also his granddaughter.
An expansion of the acclaimed short story ‘The Precedent’, Generation Nemesis is a timely, furious indictment of our lack of action on climate change – and a warning about the rage of future generations.
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Praise for Generation Nemesis & The Precedent:
- Aurealis Magazine Reviewers' Picks - 2023 Best Speculative Fiction Books
"Deftly skewers some of the authoritarian excesses of environmentalism..." - New York Review of Science Fiction
"Sean McMullen's ecological sci-fi thriller offers a grim but eerily poignant and relevant look at a dark future in a world destroyed by environmental collapse. Anyone who looks at the years to come with a ray of hope, a terrible fear, or anything in between, should read this book." - Aurealis Magazine
"As bleakly intense a take on climate change and its consequences as you'll find. It's not so much the consequences on the climate, but the consequences for those deemed to have contributed to climate change..." - BestSF
"A premise is so dark and apocalyptic that it could have gone horribly wrong in the hands of a lesser author... speaks powerfully to the horrors of the climate crisis, challenge us to reflect on those horrors and our involvement in them without shoving any particular solution down our throats." - TS Book Reviews
"Pulpy, provocative and pedagogical, this ain't your grandad's cli-fi; it's a novel-length thought-experiment in generational climate morality, delivered with the dead-pan Antipodean excess of Peter Jackson's early movies. If you're not appalled, you're reading it wrong." - Paul Graham Raven, Post Doctoral Researcher Lund University, Environmental Politics of Sociotechnical Change
