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• The Ministry for the Future

  Robinson, Kim Stanley

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  "The Ministry for the Future... (uses) fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us." --Hatchette Book Group

• State of Fear

  Crichton, Michael 1942-2008

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  "In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dispossessed

  Le Guin, Ursula K. 1929-2018

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  "A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Venomous Lumpsucker

  Beauman, Ned

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  "The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unsheltered

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  " two families, in two centuries, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  "When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Overstory

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  "The Overstory was recommended to me by an EPL patron who told me that this book changed how she views the world and how she views herself in it. The idea of perspective centers a looking-and-seeing experience, but this book called my attention to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Annihilation

  Vandermeer, Jeff

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  Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zodiac

  Stephenson, Neal

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  "Sangamon Taylor is a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too intimately. And the toxic trail he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Talents

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  "In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Notes From the Burning Age

  North, Claire

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  "Ven was once a holy man, a keeper of ancient archives. It was his duty to interpret archaic texts, sorting useful knowledge from the heretical ideas of the Burning Age—a time of excess and climate disaster. For in Ven’s world, such material must be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Skies

  a Novel

  Boyle, T. Coraghessan,

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  "Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like “jewelry, living jewelry” to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Beekeeper

  Dalton, Julie Carrick,

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  "It’s been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind—find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper, hid before he was incarcerated. There, Sasha…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Birnam Wood

  Catton, Eleanor, 1985-

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  "A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fifty Degrees Below

  Robinson, Kim Stanley

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  "About Fifty Degrees Below Set in our nation’s capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming. When the storm got bad, Frank Vanderwal was in his office…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forty Signs of Rain

  Robinson, Kim Stanley

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  "It’s a muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention to the growing crisis of global warming. But as these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Half Life of Valery K

  a Novel

  Pulley, Natasha,

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  "In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the…Read moreRead more of this annotation