It was a good day ...
I got my first copy of "Gaia's Revolution" in the mail today and took it for a celebratory 'walk' in the local marsh by my house near Vancouver, British Columbia.
I then celebrated the book finding itself an Amazon Bestseller at a local riverside restaurant with a view of the river and marina.
Gaia's Revolution is the first book of The Icaria Trilogy, a clifi eco-fiction thriller that explores a collapsing capitalist society in Canada through ravages of climate change, societal decisions, and a failing technology. Gaia's Revolution opens in Berlin, 2022, then moves to Canada, where ambitious twin brothers Eric and Damien Vogel ignite a revolution that could save the planet or erase humanity altogether. Fanatical deep ecologist, Monica Schlange, plays the brothers like chess pieces in her gambit to 'rule the world'. She captures three orphans in a web of intrigue to reshape humanity and its place in the natural world. But the orphans will ultimately determine the direction of humanity and launch a new set of rules no one envisioned.
This is a story about Canada's future, a fast-paced political thriller that touches on issues Canadians may soon or already face: environmental devastation of climate change, social unrest and polarization, eco-terrorism, environmental technocracy and behaviour engineering, DNA-targeted plagues, and techno-clones.
"A gripping blend of big scientific ideas, cutthroat politics, and complex yet sympathetic characters that will engage readers from its thrilling opening to its surprising and satisfying conclusion."
--Hayden Trenholm, author of The Steele Chronicles (on Angel of Chaos, Book 2 of The Icaria Trilogy)
Gaia's Revolution: when saving the planet demands impossible choices...
Nina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist / limnologist and novelist. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto. Visit www.ninamunteanu.ca for the latest on her books. Nina’s bilingual “La natura dell’acqua / The Way of Water” was published by Mincione Edizioni in Rome. Her non-fiction book “Water Is…” by Pixl Press (Vancouver) was selected by Margaret Atwood in the New York Times ‘Year in Reading’ and was chosen as the 2017 Summer Read by Water Canada. Her novel “A Diary in the Age of Water” was released by Inanna Publications (Toronto) in June 2020.
