The Great Transition: A Novel
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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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I loved the experience of reading this climate fiction novel.
The Great Transition is a book about the past and ongoing transition of humanity away from the fossil-based, capitalist system to a new society, which is neither a Utopia nor a dystopia. It's a story about remembering how we can and must organise to save our well-being, it's a story about the front lines of change, this hard and demanding, yet purposeful process of changing the world one step at a time. But it's more than this. This is a story about purpose and the challenges that devotion brings to the individual. You can never do enough when you have devoted your life to a cause. People will miss you, people will count on you, people and yourself will be disappointed. Yet, people will love you, people will try to be like you, you want to stay true to your purpose. Along with purpose, love plays a key role. And so does trauma and conflict. Personal and interpersonal. Another key motive of this story is learning. Learning about the transition, about yourself, about struggle, about solidarity, about purpose. Injustice is a key element to this book. The elements of fire and water. The wind, electricity, waves. The Oldies. A feeling of "realness". Technology is part of the story, but as with a real socio-technical transition, technology is a vehicle, a tool, not a driver. The social struggle, that's the real transition. Changing the world is changing meaning, purpose, people, and the resource allocation. I love this book. From the unique features in the style (the assignment drafts), to the characters and the mix between social and personal struggle. I am constantly trying to figure out how I can do more to devote myself to the purpose of saving the climate and out societies. And this book has spawned many new ideas and inspiration in me. Many climate fiction books have the ability to do that. But this book also touched me on a more personal level. I don't want my love to be a victim to a devotion to a purpose and this book has shown me that I need to pay attention to this.
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Stimmung
Hauptfigur(en)
Handlungsgeschwindigkeit
Schreibstil
Beschreibung
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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Beiträge
I loved the experience of reading this climate fiction novel.
The Great Transition is a book about the past and ongoing transition of humanity away from the fossil-based, capitalist system to a new society, which is neither a Utopia nor a dystopia. It's a story about remembering how we can and must organise to save our well-being, it's a story about the front lines of change, this hard and demanding, yet purposeful process of changing the world one step at a time. But it's more than this. This is a story about purpose and the challenges that devotion brings to the individual. You can never do enough when you have devoted your life to a cause. People will miss you, people will count on you, people and yourself will be disappointed. Yet, people will love you, people will try to be like you, you want to stay true to your purpose. Along with purpose, love plays a key role. And so does trauma and conflict. Personal and interpersonal. Another key motive of this story is learning. Learning about the transition, about yourself, about struggle, about solidarity, about purpose. Injustice is a key element to this book. The elements of fire and water. The wind, electricity, waves. The Oldies. A feeling of "realness". Technology is part of the story, but as with a real socio-technical transition, technology is a vehicle, a tool, not a driver. The social struggle, that's the real transition. Changing the world is changing meaning, purpose, people, and the resource allocation. I love this book. From the unique features in the style (the assignment drafts), to the characters and the mix between social and personal struggle. I am constantly trying to figure out how I can do more to devote myself to the purpose of saving the climate and out societies. And this book has spawned many new ideas and inspiration in me. Many climate fiction books have the ability to do that. But this book also touched me on a more personal level. I don't want my love to be a victim to a devotion to a purpose and this book has shown me that I need to pay attention to this.