''WARMER'' -- a new Amazon-published collection of cli-fi stories from 7 noted authors

AMAZON LINK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J9MHYGF/ref=apubna_nr_na_10063_ul_1_1_1810

Fear, hope, and imagination collide in this collection of possible tomorrows. What happens when boiling temperatures stoke family resentments during a long, hot winter; when a girl's personal crisis trumps global catastrophe; or when the storm of the century creates the ideal hookup for two climate scientists to party like it's the end of the world? Like the best sci-fi, these cli-fi stories offer up answers that are darkly funny, liberating, and frighteningly conceivable.

Featuring: Jess Walter, Lauren Groff, Jesse Kellerman, Edan Lepucki, Skip Horack, Sonya Larson, Jane Smiley

An interesting literary project that Amazon is releasing debuts on October 30: a “cli-fi” short story collection (aka ''climate change fiction''), with stories by Lauren Groff (2x National Book Award finalist), Jess Walters (of Beautiful Ruins), Jane Smiley (Pulitzer winner) and Edan Lepucki (of the Hachette-Amazon dispute fans). This collection is part of Amazon's idea to create more benefits for Amazon Prime members.

The collection emphasizes less speculative/sci-fi, and more takes a hard look at the human relations that are strained under a warming planet, in a way that literary fiction does best.

This innovative cli-fi project was pitched by the idea people behind the concept to Amazon as a way of giving fictional writers a collective voice around the greatest existential crisis of our era: climate change and runaway global warming.

The collection will go live at a custom Amazon page: www.amazon.com/warmer on Oct. 30,

WARMER: Fear, hope, and imagination collide in this collection of possible tomorrows. What happens when boiling temperatures stoke family resentments during a long, hot winter; when a girl’s personal crisis trumps global catastrophe; or when the storm of the century creates the ideal hookup for two climate scientists to party like it’s the end of the world? Like the best sci-fi, these cli-fi stories offer up answers that are darkly funny, liberating, and frighteningly conceivable.

Lineup:

The Way the World Ends, by Jess Walter
Sleet in Mississippi? In March? A crazy ice storm lays waste to the South this invigorating, touching story of one slippery night, an open bar, and total abandon.

Boca Raton, by Lauren Groff
A mother’s latent fears rise as relentlessly as the Florida seas in a startling story of a planet, and an imagination, under pressure.

Controller, by Jesse Kellerman

What happens when temperatures flare between a mother and son? A few degrees make all the difference in this blazingly chilling story of psychological terror.

There’s No Place Like Home, Edan Lepucki

In a climate-ravaged future, it’s not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about global catastrophe and personal chaos.

Falls the Shadow, by Skip Horack

A North Carolina combat vet finds himself far from home on the front lines of an environmental battle to save the planet.

At the Bottom of New Lake, by Sonya Larson

A girl growing up in Cape Cod explores the collectible debris of a once-perfect world she’s too young to remember. But as the past resurfaces, so do old questions about her place in society.

The Hillside, by Jane Smiley

After bringing Earth to ruin, the age of humans is over. It is a blessing for some in this tender and tragic cautionary fable.

What exactly are Amazon collections?

They are a new episodic storytelling experience presented by Amazon Original Stories. These are collections of original, exclusive, and editorially curated long-form narratives that explore a theme. A collection of Amazon Original Stories combines short-form reading with the addictive qualities of a narrative podcast: a seamless episodic reading and listening experience. Each story in a collection is available in ebook and digital audio formats and is free for Prime and KU members.

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The Way the World Ends (Warmer collection) (Oct 30, 2018)

by Jess Walter

$2.09

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Sleet in Mississippi? In March? A crazy ice storm lays waste to the South in a #1 New York Times bestselling author’s invigorating, touching story of one slippery night, an open bar, and total abandon.

For three strangers whose paths will cross, the storm hasn’t even reached its peak. Two of them are the kind of climate scientists no one ever listens to in disaster movies. The third, against even icier opposition, has just moved to the Magnolia State to come out. Soon they’ll all be pushed closer to the edge, where the bracing winds of cataclysmic change can be so wildly liberating.

Jess Walter’s The Way the World Ends is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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Boca Raton (Warmer collection) (Oct 30, 2018)

by Lauren Groff

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A mother’s latent fears rise as relentlessly as the Florida seas in a startling story of a planet, and an imagination, under pressure, by the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies.

During an eco-friendly cleanup at the beach, Ange finds something horrifying in the brush. The sickening, heartbreaking evidence of an irreversibly changing earth triggers dread about the future for her daughter. But as reasoned worries slide into paranoia, reality itself begins to untether. For Ange, there may be no stepping back from the destructive darkness of her sleepless nights.

Lauren Groff’s Boca Raton is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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Controller (Warmer collection) (Oct 30, 2018)

by Jesse Kellerman

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What happens when temperatures flare between a mother and son? A few degrees make all the difference in this New York Timesbestselling author’s blazingly chilling story of psychological terror.

It’s the hottest winter on record, but Raymond’s demanding, bedridden mother doesn’t mind. She likes it warm. Lately, however, control over the thermostat has become a nasty struggle. And each morning that she’s still alive is a suffocating new challenge for Raymond. How high can the mercury climb before he boils over?

Jesse Kellerman’s Controller is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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There's No Place Like Home (Warmer collection) (Oct 30, 2018)

by Edan Lepucki

$2.09

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In a climate-ravaged future, it’s not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about global catastrophe and personal chaos, by the New York Times bestselling author of California.

Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build.

Edan Lepucki’s There’s No Place Like Home is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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Falls the Shadow (Warmer collection) (Oct 30, 2018)

by Skip Horack

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A North Carolina combat vet finds himself far from home on the front lines of an environmental battle to save the planet in an award-winning author’s provocative story of a twenty-first-century Wild West.

Joel Dunbar, the last branch of an Appalachian family tree, accepts a mysterious invitation from a billionaire plutocrat to attend a conservation expo in San Francisco. The rock star environmentalist has startling plans for the future and a caveat for Joel: don’t ask too many questions, and don’t divulge any answers. But when Joel befriends a rebellious eco-friendly Arizona rancher, he’s roped into a new kind of war, with new kinds of casualties.

Skip Horack’s Falls the Shadow is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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At the Bottom of New Lake (Warmer collection) (Oct 30, 2018)

by Sonya Larson

$2.09

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A girl growing up in Cape Cod explores the collectible debris of a once-perfect world she’s too young to remember. But as the past resurfaces, so do old questions about her place in society.

To Chinese American teenager Chuntao, New Lake is a beautiful haven where she can hunt for treasures once swallowed up by a big flood. But when she’s caught scavenging by her biology teacher, a woman whose own past has been swept away, Chuntao is faced with an imponderable question: Which world was better—the ideal one she never knew or the destroyed one that now belongs to her?

Sonya Larson’s At the Bottom of New Lake is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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The Hillside (Warmer collection) (Oct 30, 2018)

by Jane Smiley

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After bringing Earth to ruin, the age of humans is over. It is a blessing for some in this tender and tragic cautionary fable from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres.

Now the Congress of Animals is in control, unforgiving, and debating the fate of the planet’s most reviled species. The popular ruling: exterminate humankind without exception. But a curious mare, coming of age, is making a case for a seemingly gentle person she longs to save—a wish for mercy that could once again unbalance the new and righteous nature of the world.

Jane Smiley’s The Hillside is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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Jess Walter

is the #1

New York Times

bestselling author of

Beautiful Ruins

. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Edgar

Award, as well as a three-time honoree in

The Best American

Short Stories

, Walter was also a finalist for the National Book

Award for

The Zero

. He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his

family

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jess Walter

is the #1

New York Times

bestselling author of

Beautiful Ruins

. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Edgar

Award, as well as a three-time honoree in

The Best American

Short Stories

, Walter was also a finalist for the National Book

Award for

The Zero

. He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his

family.

Lauren Groff

is the author of the

New York Time

s Notable

Book and bestseller

Fates and Furies

and the thrilling new

story collection

Florida

. Named one of

Granta

’s Best of Young

American Novelists, Groff was also a finalist for the National

Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the

Kirkus Prize.

Photo

© 2017 Kristin Kozelsky

Jesse Kellerman

is the

New York Times

bestselling author

of nine novels, including

The Genius

(winner of the Grand

prix des lectrices de Elle),

Potboiler

(nominated for the Edgar

Award for Best Novel), and

Crime Scene

(with his father,

Jonathan Kellerman). An award-winning playwright, he lives

in California.

Photo

©

2011 Isabelle Boccon-Gibod

Edan Lepucki

is the

New York Times

bestselling author of

California

and

Woman No. 17

. Her work has been

published in

Esquire

, the

New York Times

, the

Los Angeles

Times

, and

McSweeney’s

, among others. She is the creator

of @mothersbefore on Instagram and a contributing

editor at the

Millions

.

Photo

©

2017 Adam Karsten

A collaboration with the literary studio Plympton.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jess Walter

is the #1

New York Times

bestselling author of

Beautiful Ruins

. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Edgar

Award, as well as a three-time honoree in

The Best American

Short Stories

, Walter was also a finalist for the National Book

Award for

The Z