Omega

📖 The Scoop

In 1980, when this book was first published, it was "recent future" science fiction, and, although the setting is now, the premise still holds. Scientists have learned to tap the power of the earth's electro-magnetic field--put 150 kilowatts of power into two electrodes on opposite sides of the globe, and get 4015 megawatts. The world's energy problems are over! Well, not quite. . .The conflict is between the forces of technology and greed and the gentle men and women who have respect for the land, are in touch with nature, and practice the "craft of the wise"--witchcraft. Omega is memorable and lasting, with fully drawn characters and explicit and stunningly realistic witchcraft rituals. Continued denials of impending danger to what government and industry regard as an inanimate planet and the witches see clearly as the endangered body of our beloved mother mean the plot could be culled from today's scientific newspaper. (The fact that the cause of the "beehive effect," which is causing multiple catastrophic earthquakes is not exactly like any of the catastrophic storms or warming that we are experiencing today is not really germane. The details are different, but the spirit is the same.)There is no time like the present to start healing the great mother. And this is the kind of book that can win people to the cause of so doing.

Genre: Fiction / Occult & Supernatural (fancy, right?)