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The Changes: Trilogy
Climate change has arrived. Charles Peters, a low-level nobody in what’s left of the UN, is sent on an unexplained mission to save humanity. Madé, an Indonesian child refugee, must endure the powerlessness of ‘people-processing’ in an era of displacement and disease. Marie-Claude Bertillon must take responsibility for the lives of these, and many millions more, as she seeks to implement a radical solution. All are victims of the terrible choices made in the historical past – today. The complete set of personal histories in a single edition, this startling story plays out the shocking reality of what the world will be like for the people of tomorrow if we fail to take action now.
585 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 19, 2020
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September 21, 2021
One of the joys of speculative fiction is exploring interesting ideas via story, and Cadman's The Changes: Trilogy is an epic story.
Managing to juggle and weave multiple narratives and timelines over a stunning 100,000 years (Earth time), using the same core cast, is quite an achievement, and humanises the themes Cadman explores.
Though the 'changes' largely relate to anthropogenic global warming, it's more than cli-fi, as Cadman insists on a realistic time-frame for restoration of Terran climate to pre-anthropocene standards, and thus gives him, and us, a chance to explore issues of what makes us human - individually and collectively, and what makes humans as a species so fated to destroy the planet we live on. I'll avoid spoilers, but Cadman's Earth 100k years on, contains sentients other than homo sapiens, and for that reason alone offers potential solutions and hope.
Bottom line: an adventurous rollercoaster with big ideas and characters to care about.
Managing to juggle and weave multiple narratives and timelines over a stunning 100,000 years (Earth time), using the same core cast, is quite an achievement, and humanises the themes Cadman explores.
Though the 'changes' largely relate to anthropogenic global warming, it's more than cli-fi, as Cadman insists on a realistic time-frame for restoration of Terran climate to pre-anthropocene standards, and thus gives him, and us, a chance to explore issues of what makes us human - individually and collectively, and what makes humans as a species so fated to destroy the planet we live on. I'll avoid spoilers, but Cadman's Earth 100k years on, contains sentients other than homo sapiens, and for that reason alone offers potential solutions and hope.
Bottom line: an adventurous rollercoaster with big ideas and characters to care about.
January 22, 2022
A 'big' read - speculative fiction with much eco-science and much delving into the 'impossibility' of manipulating human 'progress'. Different views of how we humans should/can/can't deal with the juggernaut we are all facing by the name of climate change. I sincerely hope we can still avoid the disaster. Tim does a great and entertaining job of letting us glimpse an alternate future - well - it is speculative!
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