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Posts Tagged ‘novel’
Green living, Apr 27th, 2012,
Ernest Callenbach, author of the environmental landmark novel Ecotopia, died of cancer on April 16th in Berkley, California, at the age of 83 . Ecotopia was first self-published in 1975 and is credited as being a major influence on the environmental movement. One of the first novels in the ‘environmental utopia’ genre, Ecotopia blended science fiction, utopian fiction and contemporary scientific research, as well experiments in alternative living, which were actually being practiced at the time. The novel deals with the premise that Oregon, Washington State and Northern California break off from the rest of the US and form an independent…
Tags: California, Callenbach, Ecotopia, Ernest, novel
Videos & Documentaries, May 27th, 2011,
Everything starts right here right now – so get ready for more gripping dystopian teenage fiction from Saci Lloyd, author of the breakout novels The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017. Here is a sneak peak at Saci’s epic new novel Momentum, in the form of a video trailer. Momentum’s got free running/parkour, environmental and social crises, young love and the deft mix of humor, adventure and prescience that so impressed reviewers of Lloyd’s previous work. Check out the blurb and the vid. London, the near future. Energy wars are flaring across the globe – oil prices have gone crazy, regular…
Tags: Carbon Diaries, free running, london, Momentum, novel, parkour, Saci Lloyd
Climate Change, Mar 15th, 2010,
The much-anticipated novel on climate change from the man known as ‘England’s national author’ is finally hitting the shelves. Solar by Ian McEwan follows a Nobel laureate physicist named Michael Beardwell, who later becomes a green energy entrepreneur. According to a review in Saturday’s Guardian by Christopher Tayler, Solar is a timely, yet non-preachy story set within the current zeitgeist of climate change, science, industry and politics. McEwan delivers the complex characters, detailed research, plot twists and irony that he has become known for. Instead of a debate on climate change or an informative sermon on the dangers of global…
Tags: author, Climate change, Guardian, Ian, McEwan, novel, review, Solar, Tayler
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 25th, 2010,
‘I have turned down Johnny Depp this week and that is not something I ever expected to do’, jokes writer and sixth form teacher Saci Lloyd in an article from the January 17th edition of The Observer. A former musician, cartoonist, script-editor and advertiser, Saci Lloyd is the author of two books taking the teenage world by storm: The Carbon Diaries 2015 and its recently published sequel, The Carbon Diaries 2017. Set against the backdrop of life-threatening climate change and increasing political, the novels follow a gutsy young protagonist as she negotiates herself through life as a London youth. The…
Tags: 2015, 2017, book, Carbon Diaries, carbondiaries.com, climate, future, Laura, Lloyd, london, novel, Observer, Saci, social media, television
