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

[David G. Grubbs]

Tracy,

You weren't at the April 5th meeting where we discussed the management of
Meetup, which Louis was doing on his own. Others may take it over, but
Meetup is *not* in any way official.

Meetup was and is an "extra". The only official reading group calendar is
on the nesfa.org site. All future events are in the calendar (labeled
"Upcoming Events" on the lower left).

I just updated the "Latest News" on the lower right to note our *next*
reading group meeting.



On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 5:56 PM Tracy Marks <tracy at windweaver.com> wrote:

> 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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