{"product_id":"above-the-ether-9781628729986","title":"Above the Ether","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Chillingly recognizable . . . In twenty years--or less--people will have a hard time believing that this is a work of the imagination. That's how convincingly Barnes plays out the signs and omens of our times.\" --Tim Johnston, New York Times-bestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is a mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world very like our own, for readers of Emily St. John Mandel's \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven \u003c\/i\u003eand Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Flood.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this prequel to Eric Barnes's acclaimed cli-fi novel \u003ci\u003eThe City Where We Once Lived\u003c\/i\u003e, six sets of characters move through a landscape and a country just beginning to show the signs of cataclysmic change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA father and his young children fleeing a tsunami after a massive earthquake in the Gulf. A woman and her husband punishing themselves without relent for the loss of both their sons to addiction, while wildfires slowly burn closer to their family home. A brilliant investor, assessing opportunity in the risk to crops, homes, cities, industries, and infrastructure, working in the silent comfort of her office sixty floors up in the scorching air. A doctor and his wife stuck in a refugee camp for immigrants somewhere in a southern desert. Two young men working the rides for a roadside carnival, one escaping a brutal past, the other a racist present. The manager of a chain of nondescript fast-food restaurants in a city ravaged by the relentless wind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile every night the news alternates images of tsunami destruction with the baseball scores, the characters converge on a city where the forces of change have already broken--a city half abandoned, with one part left to be scavenged as the levee system protecting it slowly fails--until, in their vehicles on the highway that runs through it, they witness the approach of what looks to be just one more violent storm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628729986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2019 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eric Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44087220928693,"sku":"9781628729986","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7dd0bc58-122a-4234-87a8-43800e513d73.jpg?v=1714456182","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/above-the-ether-9781628729986","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}