The Hurricane Code

The Hurricane Code

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Author	James Aura
Illustrator
Cover artist	R.D. Price
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel, climate fiction, science fiction
Publisher	Amazon Publishing
Publication date	September, 2020
Media type	Print paperback ebook
Pages	256 (1st edition, paperback)
ISBN	979-8681342670 Search this book on . (1st edition, Paperback)

The Hurricane Code is a 2020 novel by American writer James Aura that blends science fiction and climate fiction.

Plot

The novel follows the plight of climate refugees in the American Midwest and Canadian Prairie Provinces, as extreme weather, including Category 7 hurricanes, makes southern regions unlivable. Three sets of characters are featured in Minnesota, Missouri, and Regina Saskatchewan, although most of the characters move across state lines and national boundaries as the story progresses. An artificial intelligence entity named 'Searcher' provides perspective and observations on the human condition through question and answer sessions with a Quantum computer based in a laboratory run by a billionaire, Dr. James Branson. Other characters include Dr. Branson's daughter, Roxanne, a climate refugee from South Missouri, Gabe Branson, a Sioux Native American from North Dakota, Zeb Wolf, and Gabe's parents, Marie and Artemis Cameron.The story portrays a reconfigured United States, with the number of states reduced to 30 because of population loss. The U.S. federal government has moved to a site in Vermont because of high heat, humidity, and flooding on the eastern seaboard. With warmer temperatures affecting wildlife habitat, tropical reptiles such as pythons, Alligators, and iguanas reach as far northwest as Kansas.

Main characters in Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, North Dakota and Saskatchewan

• Gabe Cameron – Climate refugee and menial servant.
• Roxanne Branson – Computer Scientist, heiress and resident of “The Uppsala”
• Dr. James Branson – Billionaire entrepreneur and computer scientist, Roxanne’s father.
• Zeb Wolf – Native American climate refugee and menial.
• Randall Parsons – Resident manager of “The Uppsala” known as “handsome devil.”
• Nancy Ruehl - Roxanne’s friend and resident of “The Uppsala”
• Marie and Artemis Cameron – Gabe’s parents, farmers from Seymour, Missouri
• Lin Wei – Quantum computer programmer, climate refugee
• Burt – a Kansas plainsman
• Caden – a three year old orphaned climate refugee from Memphis
• Ella Daughtry – Caden’s great-grandmother and climate refugee
• Isaac Bender – a young Mennonite farmer in Kansas
• Esther Bender – Isaac’s teenage sister
• William Swift Horse and Takoda Wolf – Zeb Wolf’s Lakota Sioux cousins
• Ivar the Ripper – a leader of the Blood Reds, a street gang in Fargo, Dakota
• Searcher – a sentient artificial intelligence program
• Quantum One – a powerful A.I. computer and mentor to Searcher
• The Hunter – a moving and storage robot illegally programmed to kill

Major themes

In the novel, public officials have handed Artificial Intelligence the task of preventing climate change, famine, disease, and war from causing extinction of the human race. The goal is to return the human population to the global level of the year 1800, one billion people. This is slowly achieved in various ways, both humane and violent, based on behavior of humans themselves. A major technological attack fifty years in the past, has cause widespread loss of life and taken down the electrical grid and internet in much of the world. Advanced technology is available only to a group of wealthy oligarchs, who have moved to protected enclaves in northern latitudes around the globe.

Global warming has driven ocean temperatures to levels not seen for millions of years, creating powerful hurricanes that frequently cause damage as far north as Canada, where the climate has moderated considerably. This has resulted in mass migrations from the southern United States to the north. The novel explores modified agriculture techniques designed to protect farmers from hurricanes on the Great Plains, with limited success. Many farmers have returned to horses as a source of power, since electricity is often unavailable, including colonies of Mennonites. The story occasionally views humans from the perspective of Artificial Intelligence entities, through conversations between a program named Searcher and a mentor named ‘Quantum One, who says: “Humans have one foot in the jungle and one foot on Mars. We only assist and guide. We do not run all of their affairs.”

Background

Author James Aura, a native of Missouri, said the inspiration for the book’s initial setting was not by chance. “A lot of novels about climate change are set on the coasts,” he said. “So I wanted to illustrate what might happen in the Midwest and explore how Midwesterners would react to those kinds of changes.” He added, “I decided a wooded area north of Coon Rapids, Minnesota would be a good setting. The story begins at a walled compound for the super-rich who want to be protected from hordes of climate refugees who have migrated north. They have nearly overrun the Twin Cities.” Aura said he writes about ordinary people caught up in sweeping historical events, such as farmers from Southern Missouri in the story, as well as Mennonites in Kansas and an Asian computer programmer from Vancouver. A Native American from North Dakota also figures prominently in the plot.

Sources, references, external links, quotations

• “Novel brings climate disaster tale to life in Anoka County”
• “Author’s sci-fi novel is a cautionary tale”
• “Study guide and discussion questions for teachers and book clubs by The Wise Owl Factory”
• “Book listing on Goodreads”
• “Hurricane Code book review”

See also

• Tropical cyclone
• Climate Change
• Climate migrant
• Carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere
• Genetic engineering
• Electromagnetic pulse

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