Sealand 1001 (Word count 49,860)
One hundred and seventy years in the future humans have survived global warming but are still faced with the problem of overpopulation. The Free Sealand organization offers an economically and politically viable solution to this problem: floating city nations. Environmentally however, the cities pose a great danger to the health of the oceans. An eco-terrorist group, Ocean Peace Resistance (OPR), and the forces of the World Council of Cetaceans work together to stop the development of Sealand cities by doing everything they can to disrupt their operations. Technology and linguistic knowledge have developed over the last hundred years allowing humans and cetaceans to communicate and begin cooperative endeavors. They team together in a variety of ways, for good and bad, as world tension mounts in the face of proliferating city states and the destruction of the oceans.
“Sealand 1001” is the newest city to be launched and targeted by OPR. The planning and execution of an attack on the city is told through the exploits of two of the terrorists, Jackie, an aquaculture expert, and Daniel, a former US Marine working undercover as a commercial fisherman out of Honolulu, Hawaii. We also follow their dolphin counterparts, Power-flukes and Long-breath, as they join the dolphin Rangers and play pivotal roles in the attack. Sealand’s perspective unfolds through the eyes of the governor of the city and Rory, an anti-terrorist expert working for the Free Sealand security forces.
The story is fast-paced and gives the author’s view of the future with a plausible blend of science and fantasy. The struggle between human civilization’s careless exploitation of the earth’s resources and nature’s need for balance are explored. The author’s positive bias leaves the reader with the hope that a final equilibrium can be reached.
