?A dystopian sci-fi novel imagines a future New England crippled by pollution and under the control of ruthless corporate patriarchs.? ?Kirkus Reviews (see complete Kirkus review here)?If you are prone to believe that even severe climate change will be well managed, that future governments will calmly move cities inland, providing good jobs in construction and engaging our better selves, Kitty Beer will turn you inside out. The compelling, gutsy characters, the cults and marauding private armies, the Prudential Tower poking out of the Boston Sea and other vivid landscapes, are horribly credible. If Beer?s trilogy, set in the 2040s, 2060s, and continuing here in the 2080s with The Hampshire Project, can?t inspire you to action, nothing will.? ?Robert Socolow, Princeton University Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-director of Princeton Environment Institute?Kitty Beer?s latest novel, The Hampshire Project, third in her Resilience trilogy, offers a foreboding, forbidding, vision of a future, post climate change New England. What was once the proud city of Boston is now underwater, victim
?A dystopian sci-fi novel imagines a future New England crippled by pollution and under the control of ruthless corporate patriarchs.? ?Kirkus Reviews (see complete Kirkus review here)?If you are prone to believe that even severe climate change will be well managed, that future governments will calmly move cities inland, providing good jobs in construction and engaging our better selves, Kitty Beer will turn you inside out. The compelling, gutsy characters, the cults and marauding private armies, the Prudential Tower poking out of the Boston Sea and other vivid landscapes, are horribly credible. If Beer?s trilogy, set in the 2040s, 2060s, and continuing here in the 2080s with The Hampshire Project, can?t inspire you to action, nothing will.? ?Robert Socolow, Princeton University Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-director of Princeton Environment Institute?Kitty Beer?s latest novel, The Hampshire Project, third in her Resilience trilogy, offers a foreboding, forbidding, vision of a future, post climate change New England. What was once the proud city of Boston is now underwater, victim