Jim Pearce

Cold is Jim Pearce’s first thriller novel. The scene is set as “near future”. Global warming has created rising temperatures worldwide, resulting in intense fires. The ash and soot from these fires blocked out the sunlight, so much so that the world converted into a frozen landscape. A few years on from this, the resulting cold is so extreme that the deep arctic conditions means that most humans have been starved or frozen to death. Resources, fuel, adequate clothing, and…

The near future is a world in which scientists and their AI got it wrong. Rising temperatures have caused fires that burned landmasses, and the ash from these fires block out the sun. The resulting cold is extreme, like a nuclear winter, and was a mass extinction event for human beings the world over. Electricity grids, communications and services all failed. Societies collapsed. Humanity is reduced to small groups of survivors, scraping by however they can. Resources are scarce, and band…

Cold is a dystopian post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future, where in the world as we once knew it, the scientists and their AIs got it completely wrong.
Rising temperatures have caused fires that burn landmasses, and the ash from these fires blocks the sun out. The resulting Cold is extreme, like a nuclear winter, and was a mass extinction event world over for human beings. Electricity grids, communications and services all failed. Societies collapsed. Humanity is reduced to small group…