Date posted online: Sunday, September 23, 2007
Munster resident hopes her novel is an environmental wake-up call
BY JANE AMMESON
Times Correspondent
An avid reader of science fiction and a determined environmentalist, Kimberly Kay Day of Munster combined science fiction, history and extensive research into global warming to create her first novel, "A Society Gone Forever" (Publish America 2007).
"The book will really open people's eyes about the environment," says Day, who studied Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" and also read the classic book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carlson, which helped launch the environmental movement back in the early 1960s.
"There is so much going on," Day says.
"A lot has happened even since I wrote the book, including the space shuttle looking down at earth and seeing so much more water because of global warming melting the ice caps."
Day's book tells the story of the last human who survived the destruction on Earth in 2020 to awake in the year 2500. It's a time when society has been taken over by robots.
Also a poet, Day received The International Poet of Merit Award from The International Society of Poets, Washington, D.C., in 1994. She ends her book with a three-page poem titled, "Where Has All of Nature Gone?"
"I enjoy writing," says Day who works as a document specialist for a law firm in Chicago and also has just written a children's book about an animal that may be going extinct.
"And my writing allows me to tell what is going on in the world."
Day's book can be purchased through www.amazon.com or www.publishamerica.com.
Munster resident hopes her novel is an environmental wake-up call
BY JANE AMMESON
Times Correspondent
An avid reader of science fiction and a determined environmentalist, Kimberly Kay Day of Munster combined science fiction, history and extensive research into global warming to create her first novel, "A Society Gone Forever" (Publish America 2007).
"The book will really open people's eyes about the environment," says Day, who studied Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" and also read the classic book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carlson, which helped launch the environmental movement back in the early 1960s.
"There is so much going on," Day says.
"A lot has happened even since I wrote the book, including the space shuttle looking down at earth and seeing so much more water because of global warming melting the ice caps."
Day's book tells the story of the last human who survived the destruction on Earth in 2020 to awake in the year 2500. It's a time when society has been taken over by robots.
Also a poet, Day received The International Poet of Merit Award from The International Society of Poets, Washington, D.C., in 1994. She ends her book with a three-page poem titled, "Where Has All of Nature Gone?"
"I enjoy writing," says Day who works as a document specialist for a law firm in Chicago and also has just written a children's book about an animal that may be going extinct.
"And my writing allows me to tell what is going on in the world."
Day's book can be purchased through www.amazon.com or www.publishamerica.com.