[nesfa-reading-group] The Great Transition book recommendation

[Tracy Marks]

I recommend The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins. High ratings.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Transition-Nick-Fuller-Googins/dp/1668010755/
(I think one of the other sci fi groups read it recently but I missed 
out on that)

It's post-dystopian. The Antarctica ice shelf collapsed a few decades 
earlier, and the coasts were destroyed (one can boat across Central Park 
by boat but all Manhattan is a disaster area). The main characters live 
in a thriving new metropolis in Greenland. Groups of people are involved 
in putting the world back together, and everyone is supposed to do one 
or two weesk of public service each year, physical work in the areas of 
the world that are nearly destroyed. One of the characters is a 
vigilante, actively involved in killing the "Climate Criminals" who 
contributed to the environmental disasters. Excellent world-building. 
Very satisfying to read a futuristic book that is beyond dystopian but 
not quite utopian.

FROM THE NY TIMES
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told 
how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But 
following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi's 
mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emi's illusions 
of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father, Larch, journey 
from their home in Nuuk, Greenland to New York City, now a lightly 
populated storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former 
metropolis. But they aren't the only ones looking for Kristina.

Thirty years earlier, Larch first came to New York with a team of 
volunteers to save the city from rising waters and torrential storms. 
Kristina was on the frontlines of a different battle, fighting massive 
wildfires that ravaged the western United States. They became part of a 
movement that changed the world­--The Great Transition--forging a new 
society and finding each other in process.

Alternating between Emi's desperate search for her mother and a 
meticulously rendered, heart-stopping account of her parents' 
experiences during The Great Transition, this novel beautifully shows 
how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow. A triumphant debut, 
The Great Transition is "a book for the present and the future--read 
this and you will be changed" (Michelle Min Sterling, New York Times 
bestselling author).:

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On another note, I always check meetup for book club meetings and don't 
see any listing for April or May or beyond........It would be helpful 
for book club meetings to be posted for at least three months in 
advance.

Tracy
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