About Gordon Gumpertz
Gordon Gumpertz brings fiction readers another exciting action/adventure experience in his new novel RED HOT SKY. This is the author’s second book, following his highly acclaimed novel TSUNAMI.
In addition to writing novels, Gordon has won gold and silver awards in national and regional short story competitions. He is a member of the Authors Guild, the Palm Springs Writers Guild, a UCLA graduate, and an instrument-rated private pilot. He keeps his website current by blogging on natural disasters and natural phenomena.
Gordon and his wife Jenny live not far from the San Andreas fault, where the Pacific Plate thrusts into the North American Plate, building increasingly high levels of faultline stress which, the seismologists say, may soon produce the Big One.
Visit his website at www.tsunaminaturaldisaster.com.
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The Interview
Could you please tell us a little about your book?
Red Hot Sky is a fast-moving novel about what happens when the buildup of CO2, methane, and other greenhouse gasses in earth’s atmosphere reaches a tipping point. In this scenario, global weather destabilizes and turns chaotic. Ice storms, dust storms, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes pummel the earth nonstop. A secret computer model reveals that the frantic weather will peak out, and transform world climate into an alien environment devastating to human survival.
Scientists Ben Mason and Claudine Manet, developers of the computer model, are lovers as well as lab partners. While they work frantically to head off the approaching catastrophe, a disgraced Russian general hacks into their model and sees earth’s bleak future as his opportunity for ultimate world power.
Ben, who had left the CIA to develop the computer model at the national lab, is reactivated by the Agency and sent on a perilous mission to block the rogue general’s plot. Claudine is placed in charge of a massive NASA project that, if completed on time, could stop the approaching doomsday climate change. But her project is stalled by bureaucracy. Ben, his cover blown, is on the run in hostile territory. The climate change calamity steadily approaches.
Did something specific happen to prompt you to write this book?
I read a report that CO2 concentration in the air has increased dramatically since the start of the industrial revolution 200 years ago, most of the increase coming in the last 50 years. I wondered what would happen if CO2 concentration zoomed so high it reached a tipping point and destabilized earth’s atmosphere. What if it re-stabilized as an atmosphere resembling some other planet, not conducive to human life? I built my story around that possibility.
Who or what is the inspiration behind this book?
I wanted to write a suspenseful, action-packed novel with interesting characters that readers would enjoy. I hoped at the same time to get people thinking about the impact of rapid climate change on our planet.
Who is your biggest supporter?
My wife, Jenny, is my biggest fan.
Your biggest critic?
My wife, Jenny, is my biggest critic. She’s a former nonfiction editor and vets all my manuscripts.
What cause are you most passionate about and why?
Taking care of our planet. It’s the only one we have.
I learn something new every day about writing and about life.
Who has influenced you throughout your career as a writer?
The great fiction writers of past and present, including Dickens, Tolstoy, Melville, Hemingway, and Steinbeck.
What is the most important thing in your life right now?
Family first. Writing a close second.
What are you currently working on?
My third disaster novel. It’s first drafted and being revised. Hope to publish by fall of this year. Don’t want to reveal theme quite yet.
Do you have any advice for writers or readers?
My advice to writers is stick with it and never give up.
About Red Hot Sky
CO2 buildup in earth’s atmosphere reaches a tipping point. Global weather destabilizes, turns chaotic. Ice storms, dust storms, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes pummel the earth nonstop. A secret computer model reveals that the frantic weather will peak out, and transform world climate into an alien environment devastating to human survival.
Scientists Ben Mason, Claudine Manet, and Bertrand Short are developers of the computer model. Ben and Claudine are lovers as well as lab partners. While they work frantically to head off the approaching catastrophe, a disgraced Russian general hacks into their model and sees earth’s bleak future as his opportunity for ultimate world power.
Ben, who had left the CIA to develop the computer model at the national lab, is reactivated by the Agency and sent on a perilous mission to block the rogue general’s plot. Claudine, not realizing that Ben is on a secret mission, misunderstands his absence, putting their relationship on thin ice.
Claudine is placed in charge of a massive NASA project that, if completed on time, could stop the approaching doomsday climate change. But her project is stalled by bureaucracy. Ben is on the run in hostile territory. The climate change calamity steadily approaches.
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