←Recommendations of Pangea (Part Two of The Second World Trilogy)

PANGEA is a great stand alone play, and an excellent sequel to MARIANAS TRENCH. Scott Sickles peers into a world where polar icecaps are melting, two old friends become lovers. This is a play with urgency and heart ache, as our two main character reunite after 26 years of separation only to realize that their jobs of trying to save humanity and all life on Earth might keep them apart.

I was riveted throughout the whole story, as I cheer these too lovely characters on, hoping that they find their way back to each other! BRAVO! Highly recommended!

A masterful entry into the Second World Triology and one that had me from the very first page. Love stories come in all forms, and this play is one of the best I've read in such a long time. There's nothing better than a backdrop of saving the earth to drop two heroes into, and Lincoln and Andy leap off the page with such realism and humor. I know the third part of this series will be one to remember as the first two have surely been.

The world is changing, and in Pangea, the boys we followed in Marianas Trench are grown and dealing with the world... from one end of it. This reunion/first meeting is heartfelt and powerful for both the growth of them over the years and also for the world they're trying to save. The love and affection and tenderness that we hoped for is there, as is the intense feeling of being on the edge of a cliff.

Our favorite characters from the first part of the trilogy yet again form the spine of the play, and we delight in their mature perspectives and touching re-acquaintance. This time the story takes in both the political events of this richly imagined future and the impending collapse of our ecosystem. Sickles fills the outwardly sterile Antarctica environment with wonderfully lively characters and lots of sexy science talk. The characters are removed from some catastrophes even as they witness others firsthand, and we watch breathlessly over their shoulders, completely engaged thanks to Sickles’s always assured writing.

Everything is changing in Sickles' "Pangea," the second of a three-part epic cycle of plays. The world is beginning to end and two men who have long loved one another have finally met. And the changes cause personal, political, and environmental rifts that must be navigated. Very highly recommended.

Part Two of Scott Sickles’ Second World Trilogy, PANGEA is a stunning continuation of the love story begun in MARIANAS TRENCH, but far more intimate even as Sickles’ delves into ever deeper, darker waters with a skillfully deployed mixture of humor and dread, beautifully handled all the way through.

In "Pangea," Scott Sickles builds on the dynamic and terrifying hypothetical future he so deftly established in "Marianas Trench." Whereas "Marianas Trench" was a lyrical and poetic coming of age story, this is a fascinating piece of "sci-fi naturalism" (if there is such a thing) with a poignant, funny, and beautiful romance at the center of it. Sickles deepens Lincoln (Teddy) and Andy (Anzor) as characters while successfully propelling his overarching narrative and world-building forward to great effect. He articulates prescient (frighteningly so) themes about sustainability, identity, and the destructive nature of humanity. I look forward to part three!

Sci-fi fantasy set in the Antarctic, 2046, when climate change is wreaking havoc with the planet, a favored few will escape to Mars, and millions of desperate unseen people are left behind to murder each other with guns. A love story emerges between the now grown-up two boys from Scott Sickles's "Marianas Trench," in the thrilling Part Two of his Second World trilogy. "You know the planet’s gone to hell when an overabundance of penguins is a harbinger of the apocalypse." But there are signs of hope (at least on the political front) at the end. Bring on Part Three!