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[2023]
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"The truth doesn't always set you free... Ess wakes up alone on a sailboat in the remote Pacific Northwest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. She finds a note, but it's more warning than comfort: Start over. Don't make yourself known. Don't look back. Ess must have answers. She sails over a turbulent ocean to a town hundreds of miles away that, she hopes, might offer insight. The chilling clues she uncovers point to a desperate attempt...
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"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world - rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster...
4) The shining
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Pub. Date
2024
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Mal has finally completed the long, dangerous journey to safety in the Shining City. And though he started the trek with his friends, he is now the only survivor. There, in the sparkling metropolis, he believes that he is protected from the dangers of the climate-ravage world. But as a refugee, Mal must live in special housing, cannot move around freely, and faces extreme prejudice. He learns that he can earn full citizenship by working through an...
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Pub. Date
2019
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A novel about coming of age in a dystopian world of the very near future. A future that is mere decades away. A future ravaged by climate change and savaged by modern civilization. Can young love and young lovers survive? Can our civilization survive? Is survival a blessing or a curse? This is the story of James Mendez and his first love, Anna. Born the only son of one of the world’s richest men; will his wealth even matter, as he grows up in a...
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Pub. Date
2021
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A novel about coming of age in a dystopian world of the very near future. A future that is mere decades away. A future ravaged by climate change and savaged by modern civilization. Can young love and young lovers survive? Can our civilization survive? Is survival a blessing or a curse? This is the story of James Mendez and his first love, Anna. Born the only son of one of the world’s richest men; will his wealth even matter, as he grows up in a...
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2020.
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"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...