Access Video Library

Our Books

Bridging Timeless Climate Stories Through Publishing

THE GALILEO SERIES

The Fires of Home
The Dirties
Hobo Signs

THE GALILEO SYNDROME

On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, humanity can no longer ignore Global Warming. Having inherited an ineffective bulwark against the changing climate, we stare at the beast of our making: The Greenhouse Laws. The malevolent bastard child of Kyoto, the Greenhouse Laws limit energy usage, transportation, heat, refrigeration, and clean water. It reduces communication to a trickle and requires every citizen to report monthly energy usage. Non-approved energy consuming activity by the population has become illegal. Of course there are always “Privileges”. Carlos Jordan is seventeen when the Greenhouse Laws are enacted. For his generation the payments are due for climate change. The children of the new millennium, see their first installment–the Greenhouse Laws–as acceptable. The second payment is not. They are faced with the winnowing away of civilization and our species. We follow Carlos into adulthood amid the social migration and chaos of rabid storms, rising seas, rampant disease, and a breakdown of infrastructure. Yet where there is courage, there is hope.

print
E-Book
Read Sample
Trade Purchase

The First Book of Galileo Series

Elites TV | July 2004

★★★★★

“…A breathtaking novel painting the most chillingly realistic picture ever of the coming environmental calamity. As we begin to sink deeper into this event of climate change, Daniel H. Gottlieb paints a canvas of hope hidden in a changing world that could easily be the story of our lives. An evocation that a lack of energy equals a lack of freedom, this novel calls out the scientific and environmental dilemmas we will pass on to the future generations while pointing to the best in humanity…”

KBC Media | July 2004

★★★★★

“…The ‘1984’ of environmental thrillers for its realistic depiction of the social and political upheaval brought about by Global Warming…”

THE FIRES
OF HOMES

The FIRES Of Home reveals an environmental web and a sense of place that takes you to the core of human values and then guides you along a thrilling ride inside human reasoning and belief. It had once been called the Tipping Point. We didn’t know what the Tipping Point might be. We were warned that it might be dangerous. For Doctor Winston Doe, the Tipping Point is a memory: A war called the Jazz War. By battling the Jazz War to a standstill, two generations of soldiers gave their lives, and their memories. The media says the war has been won. Winston Doe was born a Walker; a second generation American nomad made homeless by the changing climate. To the Walkers, the Jazz War was nothing more than the madness of consumption-based society coming home to roost and the only future a consumptive society deserves: extinction. To Winston Doe, it is her path. Drawn into the battle, she finds betrayal, greatness, love, and virtue in a world going mad. Read this startling vision of our space in the ecosystem: When our truths are washed away, and our illusions desert us. A must read for anyone who feels our interconnection with the planet, wonders where we going as a species and what the Tipping Point may really mean to our children.
print
E-Book
Read Sample
Trade Purchase

The Second Book of Galileo Series

print
E-Book
Read Sample
Trade Purchase

THE DIRTIES

The third book of the quadrology that includes The Galileo Syndrome, The Fires of Home, and Hobo Signs, The Dirties walks into the lull before a storm of clarity. The apparently impossible events of this book drives us through the destruction of reality via an apparently simple concept: An uncaring elite has damned billions to suffer.
The lull looks like this: Chaos spreads quickly as poverty and disease grow. The corporate tit turns away from the masses, then disappears all together Anger erupts. Another barrier is required to keep the population in order.
The Redding Wall rises three hundred feet from the ground. The barricade in Northern California uses the remains of the consumer civilization to protect those that brought down civilized society. Brownish gray in color with black shadows from its rain of weapons, built from trash, an odor of filth radiates from the wall, a ghostly extension of its existence. The miles-long pyramid-shaped wall wears a flat top of weapons and protruding perches for armaments, surveillance, and assault counter measures–as well as air conditioned cubes for black glass sport courts, swimming pools, and bicycle trails running along the peak. Beneath that, the rectangular-snouts of the guard towers and their blinking red lights, flame throwers, and gatling guns that could probably have guarded hell from god’s avenging angels.
Not surprisingly, the Redding Wall has become a lens, a focus of anger for billions of people around the planet. Millions arrive on the American shores every month, in an ironic parody of the American dream of centuries past. They come not to enjoy the gift of freedom, but to destroy those that hide behind it. Everyone wants a piece of the nightmare–not to own it–but to annihilate the madness that has taken over a once great dream of freedom and human dignity.
The Redding Wall stands as a tribute to technology and engineering. But like an old headstone, it is scared by time. Yet how could this monster exist in our world?
“…Called the 99 % solution, The Dirties calls out to a society in turmoil. It is both a great read and an answer to the inequity and loss we face as a society. Read how this prophetic novel meets the challenge of our times, and points to an answer. An answer without bloodshed, class warfare, or the need for a schism, The Dirties takes us to our roots as a nation–and in doing so–reveals America’s centuries old path to greatness…”

The Third Book of Galileo Series

HOBO SIGNS

Remold Jaka has created the ultimate game. Called the Wholack Game, it is considered a heaven. A place where nothing can be denied and everything can be had. A game so immersive it changes the face of human endeavor. We’ve become a society where every right has been privatized, and every service has a cost. There is no right or wrong. Everyone is born an outlaw.
The impacts of law, the enforcement of justice, equal rights, medical care, fire protection, food, water, and everything else are moneymaking schemes to enter the nirvana of Wholack. Everything costs because everyone wants to get into the game called Wholack. For those that risk and lose it all–those that cannot afford the basic human rights package–there is FairGame. A set of parks where the only law is survival. The reaches of civilization stop at its boundaries. Even the Hunters that enter the FairGame preserves have no law to protect them. The Hobos certainly do not. The closest entities to law are the FairGame Administrators. A deadly job, with one advantage: a quick route into Wholack. Remold is a man caught in success, a fool. He cannot assist the forces that seek to end the game, nor can he cope with the wreck of civilization that exists on Earth. Ending the game would put over a billion people back onto a planet that is more jungle than home, but it might end FairGame.
The culminating book of the four book series that started with The Galileo Syndrome then continued with The Fires of Home and The Dirties, see that with heaven in hand nothing is as it seems and meaning can live only as a door. Controlled by the great mysteries, the questions of life, love, death, the forces of time, we live learning their signs only to die. Seeing in the end that we are both emperor and fool, goddess and hag.
Or have we been looking at the wrong signs?
Perhaps it is all not as pointless as it once appeared.
print
E-Book
Read Sample
Trade Purchase

The Forth Book of Galileo Series

ON THE ACIDIC OCEANS, FROM AUGUST 2, 2004
SANCHO: “Why are you adding baseball base bags to the ocean?”
QUIXOTE: “Look, I do as I am told. They said the ocean was getting too acidic and I should add some bases to it.”
SANCHO: “You are one funny lackey, Quixote. Are you sure they said bases? As in the plural?”
QUIXOTE: “You mean I should just add first base? What difference does it make? You environmentalists are so picky.”
print
E-Book
Read Sample
Trade Purchase

THE DIALOGUES OF SANCHO AND QUIXOTE

MYTHICAL DEBATES ON
GLOBAL WARMING:
1997 - 2010

Do you understand the American climate debate?
Do you ever want to laugh at it? Here it is, in all its absurdity:
ON NEW ORLEANS, FROM NOVEMBER 25, 2000 (yes that date is correct)
SANCHO: “So where are you off to, Quixote?”
QUIXOTE: “We’re closing down our offices in the great state of Louisiana. I’m selling some real estate and liquidating some assets–that kind of thing.”
SANCHO: “Why are your friends selling their real estate holdings in New Orleans?”
QUIXOTE: “I didn’t say that.”
SANCHO: “Did your address get given out to Greenpeace?”
QUIXOTE: “Nope. All I can say, Sancho, is one of the boys from Bermuda Biologicals got a little too loud in a Karaoke bar the other night and so I’m off to liquidate assets.”
SANCHO: “Something going to happen I should know about?”
QUIXOTE: “Where? What do you mean?”
ON ECONOMICS, FROM APRIL 3, 2006
QUIXOTE: There is nothing we can do to cope with global warming. We must stay the economic course.”
SANCHO: “First, you say we cannot modify our economic system.”
QUIXOTE: “Precisely, Sancho.”
SANCHO: “Because it is fragile.”
QUIXOTE: “Very.”
SANCHO: “Then you say that when our economic system is battered by climate change, its resiliency will carry us through the tough times.”
QUIXOTE: “Exactly, Sancho.”
SANCHO: “But we can’t adjust its course when it is healthy?”
QUIXOTE: “Now you have it, Sancho.”

GET TO KNOW THE NEIGHBORS

Our Host - Elvis

Elvis's Introduction to COP3

Sancho:
Sanctimonious Environmentalism

Quixote:
Maniacal
Capitalism

Once upon a time,
it was SATIRE.
Now, it is REALITY.

Coal and Oil
December 11, 1997

Rhetoric & Litigation
December 24, 1997

New Orleans
NOVEMBER 25, 2000

All Videos Are Produced by
Canopy Studios - Japan

Subscribe to Access Videos