Jl Morin

Nature's Confession

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Produktbeschreibung

The epic tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet . . .the universe . . . and their love Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner Book Excellence Award Finalist New York Book Festival Honorable Mention This cli-fi quest full of romance, honor, and adventure is the #1 Top Marinovich Fiction Read of the year LitPick 5-Star Review Award Winner Best of a New Genre, included in "12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read" Eco-Fiction Honorable Mention Best Climate & Environmental Fiction Book When a smart-mouthed, mixed-race teen wonders why the work that needs to be done pays nothing compared to the busywork glorified on holovision news, the search for answers takes him on the wildest journey of anyone's lifetime. Their planet is choked with pollution. They can't do anything about it . . . or can they? With the girl of his dreams, he inadvertently invents living computers. Just as the human race allows corporations to pollute Earth into total desolation, institute martial law and enslave humanity, the two teens set out to save civilization. Can they thwart polluters of Earth and other fertile planets? The heroes come into their own in different kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance. Along the way, they enlist the help of female droid Any Gynoid, who uncovers cutting-edge scientific mysteries. Their quest takes them through the Big Bang and back. Will Starliament tear them from the project and unleash 'intelligent' life's habitual pollution, or will youth lead the way to a new way of coexisting with Nature? Nature's Confession couldn't be more timely, just as the IMF reveals that governments give $5.3 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies every year, while we continue to propagate the idea that solar and wind power are unprofitable. With illustrations and topics for discussion at the back of the book, JL Morin entertains questions about busywork; economic incentives to pollute; sustainable energy; exploitation; cyborgs; the sanctity of Nature; and many kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard Square Editions
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781941861424
• ISBN-10: 1941861423
• Artikelnr.: 47398781

Autorenporträt

JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Wondering what the Japanese were doing right, she decamped to Tokyo. JL Morin's writing draws on a breadth of experience. She traded derivatives in New York while studying nights for her MBA at New York University's Stern School of Business; worked for the Federal Reserve Bank posted to the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center; presented the news as a TV broadcaster; and is adjunct faculty at Boston University.