Emergency Weather

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Zeke has to stay with his aunt and uncle in Lower Hutt after a landslide takes his East Coast home off its foundations. Allie puts her drought-ridden Otago dairy farm out of her mind and catches a plane to the capital city. Stephanie wonders why shes sitting around a table at the Ministry for Resilience again. In Emergency Weather, three people find themselves in Wellington as the climate crisis crashes into their lives. A giant storm is on its way what will be left of the city when its over A scarily prescient thriller by award-winning author and climate change activist Tim Jones.

Author Bio

Tim Jones was awarded the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature in 2010. He co-edited Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, which won the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work. His recent books include poetry collection New Sea Land (Mkaro Press, 2016) and climate fiction novella Where We Land (The Cuba Press, 2019). He is a climate change activist, helping to work on a just transition to a low-carbon future. Tim lives in Wellington.