Sea Change
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New from the Nebula Award winning author of Beggars in Spain: A riveting climate-change technothriller of espionage, conspiracy, and stakes so high they could lead to the destruction of humanity itself. "Kress wisely keeps her global catastrophe on a human scale, eschewing superheroic action for tense realism. This urgent, deeply satisfying story is as tenacious and inspiring as its heroine."--Publishers Weekly Operative Renata Black has an unusual problem: an ordinary self-driving house. But this particular house, which is causing a traffic snarl, also has the Org's teal paint on the windowsill. In 2022, GMOs were banned. A biopharmaceutical drug caused the Catastrophe: worldwide economic and agricultural collapse, and personal tragedy for lawyer Caroline Denton and her son. Ten years later, as Renata Black, she is a member of the Org, an underground group of scientists hunted by the feds. But the Org's illegal research might just hold the key to rebuilding the worlds' food supply. Now there's a mole in the Org, and Renata is the only one who can find out who it is. Will there be time to reveal the solutions that the world has not been willing to face?Product Details
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"A strong, striking look at a possible future, and the courage that will allow us to survive it." -Laura Anne Gilman, author of Heart of Briar and Soul of Fire
Praise for Sea Change
"Kress wisely keeps her global catastrophe on a human scale, eschewing superheroic action for tense realism. This urgent, deeply satisfying story is as tenacious and inspiring as its heroine."--Publishers Weekly
"Kress writes a brilliantly imagined near future complete with false identities and analog spycraft mixed into an aggressively digital world in which greenhouses hiding GMO carrots are as vulnerable as missile bases, "drivie." houses cruise unassisted down streets, and disinformation campaigns blaze on social media.."
--Booklist
A Foreword Book of the Day
"Sharp, spare, and journalistic."
--Foreword
"Nancy Kress' Sea Change novella shows that she's still the master of biological disruption and human insight."
--Amazing Stories
"A realistic climate fiction with superb plot and memorable characters. It actually reads like a Hollywood thriller!"
--Strange Horizons "This new work of fiction from Nebula Award winning author Nancy Kress, Sea Change (Tachyon) is a riveting climate-change techno-thriller."
--Environmental Magazine, "What We're Reading Now"
--StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website "Another excellent, fast-paced read from one of speculative fiction's most consistent voices."
--Christopher East
"5/5 stars. Sea Change, a forthcoming novella by acclaimed writer Nancy Kress, is everything I love about speculative fiction. The story has a compelling near-future setting, is full of smart characters with sharply written dialogue, and is so thematically rich and progressive."
--Back Shelf Books
"A strong, striking look at a a possible future, and the courage that will allow us to survive it."
--Laura Anne Gilman, author of Heat of Briar and Soul of Fire
--Greg Bear, author of Eon and Take Back the Sky "Nancy Kress is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. Her use of science is tricky and thought-provoking, her command of fiction sharp and full of feeling."
--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Years of Rice and Salt "Nobody is better at destroying the world--see one of my favorite novellas, the multi-award-winning After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall--but here Nancy Kress dives into the science of genetically modified plants and shows us how we just may need them to save the planet. And this brilliant, thoughtful story is also a page-turner! I don't know about you, but a thriller about a fear-mongering, anti-science government and the smart, brave people resisting it was exactly the story I needed right now."
--Daryl Gregory, award-winning writer of Spoonbenders "Kress brilliantly weaves together two halves of a bio-thriller about GMOs and climate change that blooms logically from our immediate past and into one possible catastrophic near future. What's even more impressive is how she warns us about the dangers of GMOs on one hand, and teaches us about their wonderous advantages on the other. It's science fiction and it's not science fiction, and that's what's scary about this novella. Highly recommended."
--Patrick Swenson, author of The Ultra Thin Man
"This taut, suspenseful near-future ecothriller combines a frighteningly plausible ecological/economic collapse scenario with genuine human emotion. A winner!"
--David D. Levine, author of Arabella of Mars
"In a word, fantastic. Ms. Kress has crafted a brilliant and frighteningly realistic near future world"
--Disciples of Boltax
"This taut, suspenseful near-future ecothriller combines a frighteningly plausible ecological/economic collapse scenario with genuine human emotion. A winner!" -David D. Levine, author of Arabella of Mars
