One week before the Global Mandatory Hibernation and Flea Wheeler will do anything to avoid a long winter underground. A claustrophobic climate refugee who has been living rough on the flooded streets of Manchester, Flea dreads the day she'll be forced into shelter so a geoengineering experiment can attempt to reverse the chaotic effects of global warming. Armed with nothing but her stolen umbrella, Flea is on a mission to stay on the surface and somehow survive the extreme weather.
'Shrinking Sinking Land' is a YA cli-fi story of survival, solidarity and defiance the face of environmental catastrophe for ages 14 and up.
*Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest Runner Up (2016).
"Suspenseful...sharply well-written...and altogether a success."
Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
- ISBN10 0244427364
- ISBN13 9780244427368
- Publish Date 22 October 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 386
- Language English