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Announcing launch of "Green Valley"
My next book, Green Valley, a climate change novel will be released in May, 2017.
From the back cover: In 2022, Abby leaves husband and promising medical career to become a country doctor and seek a better future for herself and her son, nine-year-old Bill in the Massachusetts village of Williams Hill.
Following a series of weather disasters, the New England Carbon Rebellion has resulted in severe restrictions on the use of fossil fuels. Everything changes as transportation, education, and agriculture adapt to alternative sources of energy. Under the leadership of Tom, an innovative architect, the village community evolve into a valley-wide farm collective, known as the Green Valley Co-Com. Tom challenges Abigail to accept his friendship and share his vision. With his encouragement, Abby starts a local clinic and works with NewECare, the single-payer that provides universal health care to New England. Bill, at first resistant to change, blooms under the village school’s emphasis on self-reliant learning and shared community responsibility.
Green Valley is a novel about the near-future that treads a narrow path along the precipice of climate change into a viable future. Envisioning a new society, Ipsen avoids the cliché of a utopia, but describes the dramatic steps that must be taken very soon if we are to avoid the dystopian end of civilization predicted by the typical cli-fi novel.
Green Valley and Anne’s earlier historical novels, At the Concord of the Rivers and Abigail’s Legacy, span 350 years of Massachusetts history in a series that envisions some extraordinary fictional characters living in the thoroughly researched context of the past and the future.
From the back cover: In 2022, Abby leaves husband and promising medical career to become a country doctor and seek a better future for herself and her son, nine-year-old Bill in the Massachusetts village of Williams Hill.
Following a series of weather disasters, the New England Carbon Rebellion has resulted in severe restrictions on the use of fossil fuels. Everything changes as transportation, education, and agriculture adapt to alternative sources of energy. Under the leadership of Tom, an innovative architect, the village community evolve into a valley-wide farm collective, known as the Green Valley Co-Com. Tom challenges Abigail to accept his friendship and share his vision. With his encouragement, Abby starts a local clinic and works with NewECare, the single-payer that provides universal health care to New England. Bill, at first resistant to change, blooms under the village school’s emphasis on self-reliant learning and shared community responsibility.
Green Valley is a novel about the near-future that treads a narrow path along the precipice of climate change into a viable future. Envisioning a new society, Ipsen avoids the cliché of a utopia, but describes the dramatic steps that must be taken very soon if we are to avoid the dystopian end of civilization predicted by the typical cli-fi novel.
Green Valley and Anne’s earlier historical novels, At the Concord of the Rivers and Abigail’s Legacy, span 350 years of Massachusetts history in a series that envisions some extraordinary fictional characters living in the thoroughly researched context of the past and the future.
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