Scientific and climate thriller
TERRA AUSTRALIS — The Memory of Climates
English subtitle: The Memory of Climates
Independently published
In 2029, the retreat of the Antarctic ice reveals an impossible fossil — and a protocol dated 1959.
Antarctica, January 2029. After a glacial front collapses, a scientific team discovers an impossible fossil in a wall that had remained inaccessible for millions of years. When Naël Kervran attempts to transmit his readings, the data is intercepted by a secret protocol bearing a single date: 1959.
In Alsace, an ordinary family finds that the heat records are no longer anomalies but the first stages of a world where some cities will soon no longer function. Between Antarctica, Strasbourg, Réunion Island and the oldest sites of humanity, a question takes shape: what did the signatory powers of the Antarctic Treaty know — and for how long?