A ''cli-fi'' novel from CANADA is ready for publication and seeking a publisher in Canada or elsewhere.
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A Canadian writer and novelist has written an [as-yet-unpubished but ready to be published] ''cli-fi'' literary novel set in Canada about the coutnry's oil sands issues, a literary novel concerned with the environment, eco-terrorism and how climate change will impact the heart and the family, not just the wallet and the state.
International fiction is increasingly interested in cli-fi, but until now, no novel has addressed Canada's oil sands, which are both the epitome of peak oil and the least sustainable project on the planet. American literature often addresses slavery; German literature often reckons with the Nazi Holocaust; here, finally, is a novel of not only Canada's oil sands, but also of how climate change is poised to challenge the family and the heart, not just the wallet and the environment. [The novel weighs in at 131,000 words.]
The story, in brief: a 17 year-old Canadian girl has grown up the privileged daughter of a geologist turned Calgary oil sands executive. When she falls for a Calgary bike courier who secretly scans many of the oil contracts he's paid to deliver, she finds a lover and a comrade-in-green-arms. Alarmed by the historical 'Project Cauldron' — the private (and patented!) American proposal to liquify the oil in Alberta's tar sands with nuclear weapons — the increasingly militant green lovers go north to Fort Mac with the plan of exploding the containment wall of an oil-sands tailings pond dam to flood the entire region in toxins and bring the industry to a halt. The environmental racism that finds northern Canadian First Nations poisoned is also resented by character in the novel who is a Cree sniper and whose bile-duct cancer brought him home prematurely from the war in Afghanistan. He, too, has a plan to stop the sands.
The author has taught creative writing and contemporary fiction at 4 Canadian universities and has published or presented literary essays in France, Sweden, Canada, Germany, the United States, India and Iceland. The opening prologue of his novel is forthcoming in one of Canada's literary magazines.
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Some two centuries from our present time, the future we feared has become reality. Untamable climate change has taken its toll on the planet and shaken the technologically advanced society to the core. The extreme pollution and radiation have made the health care system dependent on the medical oxygen supplies and rare healing herbs imported from the last remaining natural reserve called Aire.
This isolated community is a home to Taya, a young woman who secretly wishes she could travel the world and at least once experience life outside of her secluded hometown.
As a result of a peculiar turn of events, Taya finds herself all alone for the first time in a strange city she does not belong in. Here, in the capital of the new world, she encounters a kind man who shares her values and passions. But, as their short romance unfolds, a cloud of danger hovers over her hometown.
Unaware of the environmental disaster that threatens to destroy Aire, she is torn between nostalgia for her home and the desire to stay with her soul mate, whom she might never see again if their contrasting worlds continue to drift apart.
The full version of ‘Aire’ is available as ebook on Amazon, iTunes, B&N for just $0.99 for a limited time. For lovers of paperbacks, Aire is also available on Amazon in this form. For readers outside USA, please search for the title ‘Aire’ by N.C. on your local Amazon or iTunes stores
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AIRE by N.C.
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Aire
Some two centuries from our present time, the future we feared has become reality. Untamable climate change has taken its toll on the planet and shaken the technologically advanced society to the core. The extreme pollution and radiation have made the health care system dependent on the medical oxygen supplies and rare healing herbs imported from the last remaining natural reserve called Aire.
This isolated community is a home to Taya, a young woman who secretly wishes she could travel the world and at least once experience life outside of her secluded hometown.
As a result of a peculiar turn of events, Taya finds herself all alone for the first time in a strange city she does not belong in. Here, in the capital of the new world, she encounters a kind man who shares her values and passions. But, as their short romance unfolds, a cloud of danger hovers over her hometown.
Unaware of the environmental disaster that threatens to destroy Aire, she is torn between nostalgia for her home and the desire to stay with her soul mate, whom she might never see again if their contrasting worlds continue to drift apart.
The full version of ‘Aire’ is available as ebook on Amazon, iTunes, B&N for just $0.99 for a limited time. For lovers of paperbacks, Aire is also available on Amazon in this form. For readers outside USA, please search for the title ‘Aire’ by N.C. on your local Amazon or iTunes stores
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