Join NOAA Planet Stewards at our January Book Club!

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Join us at our first Book Club meeting of 2021!

We'll connect on Monday January 18, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time to discuss:

Blackfish City

*** The author, Sam Miller will be joining us at this event! *** 

You can find more information about the Book Club

and see our lineup for the entire 2020-2021 academic year here.

The discussion is open to all.

To join us, dial 866-662-7513 (toll free!) 

Then, use the pass code: 1170791#

Please share this invitation to all interested colleagues and networks

Cover of Young Adult Cli-Fi Novel Blackfish City

After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population.

When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.

Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.

Listen to an interview with the book's author, Sam Miller, by NPR's Scott Simon

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