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MegCaldwell
Venomous Lumpsucker | Ned Beauman
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Pickpick

I loved this book- total thought provoking and full of climate dread.

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DimeryRene
Weird Fishes | Rae Mariz
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Pickpick

Loved this little indie about colonization and the deep sea. 🌊

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quietlycuriouskate
Clade | James Bradley
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Mehso-so

More cli-fi. Not bad by any means, but it does have problems.
The episodic structure through time made it difficult to connect to any of the characters.
There's a thoughtlessly ableist response to autism.
I don't know what JB's issues are around motherhood, but he's spilled them on the page.
These things I can work around: the ending I cannot (see comment under spoiler alert).

quietlycuriouskate The world is totally f*cked up but, hey, we could see it as a new beginning and look how great we humans are with our resilience and our caring for our nearest and dearest; let's give ourselves a pat on the back and hit the snooze button again. Just no! 😠 4mo
RamsFan1963 I thought I'd read this book and enjoyed it, but then I read the synopsis, and it didn't sound like the book I read. Turns out there's another book called Clade by Mark Budz. That's the one I read and thought was pretty entertaining. It's also cli-fic. 4mo
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Hooked_on_books
Wall | John Lanchester
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Pickpick

In this dystopia, GB is fully surrounded by a concrete wall, guarded along its length by conscripted citizens to keep “others” out. We start by following a.freshly minted conscript as he adjusts to his new task. I thought this book was fascinating, and a stinging social commentary on everything from attitudes toward immigration, caste structure and climate change. #ReadYourEbooks

TrishB Oh I have this languishing. You may have revived it up the pile. 6mo
Leftcoastzen 👍🐶 6mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 6mo
Hooked_on_books @TrishB I hope so! It languished for me, too, and I‘m glad I finally picked it up. It‘s a quick read, if that helps. 6mo
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rachaich
Clade | James Bradley
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Pickpick

Brilliant. Terrifying to consider but so cleverly written.

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rachaich
Clade | James Bradley
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Amusingly I misread the title as Glade...
This is flippin good so far, the idea of climate change occurring as the story unfolds so we are in it with the characters.

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swynn
The stone weta | Octavia Cade
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Pickpick

(2020) In the near future, governments respond to climate change by outlawing data that document its effects. An underground network of women scientists respond by caching illegal copies of authentic climate data against the day that it can be studied. I loved this, from its scary-plausible premise, to its unusual narrative structure to its feminist, queer, and colonial themes, to its effective character drama. Highly recommended.

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Decalino
New York 2140 | Kim Stanley Robinson
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This 600+ page novel takes place in a future where sea level rise has submerged lower Manhattan, squatters dwell among the moldering ruins, and the wealthy own vacant apartments in impossibly high skyscrapers. A lot happens, but the pleasure of this book lies in the detailed world building, the vivid cast of characters, and the possibility of real, meaningful change. Somehow my least depressing climate change read so far!

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bnp
The Coral Bones | E. J. Swift
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We found the body in an orange inflatable off the south coast of Lizard Island.

#FirstLineFridays @ ShyBookOwl

Graphic in lower right from https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html