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    Next Door Data
    Next Door Data
    Next Door Data
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    Next Door Data

    By Les W Kuzyk

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    A scientist out on a weekend camping trip pulled in beside the family tent after a day at the beach to the hammering clatter of a next door power generator. Struggling to deal with the irritation, he found his inner rage surging to form a lineup of imagined spray bombed messages, wire-cutters and shotgun blasts. His own quiet attempts at switching to an e-car to alleviate climate change became a futile attempt to bring about his desire for a peaceful camping experience. The disrupting noise of two cycle engines around him, he realized, turned out to be symbolic of the data that he had been researching over the last several years. Behind the noise of internal combustion engines boomed the incessant threat of climate change. He found he had to act, and the action he knew he needed take turned out quite different than his initial reactionary lashing out at the next door noise.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLes W Kuzyk
    Release dateOct 17, 2014
    ISBN9781310128110
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    Les W Kuzyk

    Testing the waters of writing on a university thesis, Les learned of his passion for words and social justice. After publishing two academic papers followed by further non-fiction, he switched gears to focus passion and writing voice on fiction. His novels and short stories typically play out in a near future settings, all linked to his OurNearFuture site. The science researched speculative novel Pinatubo II set in the year 2027 begins a Climate Reality series, the second novel Krakatoa II will publishing in 2019, while the story of rebellious youth in The shela directive novel became available in 2016.

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      Next Door Data - Les W Kuzyk

      Next Door Data

      by Les W Kuzyk

      cover photo by Dragana Malic

      ***My speculative climate novel Pinatubo II published 4 November 2015.***

      Published by Les W Kuzyk at Smashwords. All rights reserved.

      Copyright 2014 Les W Kuzyk

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      Next Door Data

      Calvin noticed a new trailer in the campsite next door as he eased the family vehicle in beside their tent. After a great day at the beach they were sticky-hot and not a little worn. Leila looked over knowingly—that young couple tent camping out of their truck last night were gone. This trailer stretched out all along the gravel drive surrounded by a spillover of unloaded trappings and flashing a factory-fresh Spirit of the Wild logo. A 4-wheel-drive guarded the front, and squinting through the branches Calvin

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