Sea Change

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New from the Nebula Award winning author ofBeggars in Spain:A riveting climate-change techno-thriller of espionage, conspiracy, and stakes so high they could lead to the destruction of humanity itself.

Operative Renata Black has a serious problem: an ordinary self-driving house. But this house, causing a traffic snarl, also has the Org's teal paint on the windowsill.

In 2022, GMOs were banned. A biopharmaceutical caused the Catastrophe: worldwide economic and agricultural collapse, and personal tragedy for lawyer Caroline Denton and her son. Ten years later, as Renata Black, she is a member of the Org, an underground group of scientists hunted by the feds. But the Org's illegal food-research might just hold the key to rebuilding the worlds' food supply.

Now there's a mole in the Org, and Renata is the only one who can find out who it is. At risk is the possibility of an even more devastating climate collapse. For answers, she will go to her legal clients from the Quinault Nation. Will there be time to reveal the solutions that the world has not been willing to face

'Sea Changeis like liquid nitrogen ice cream a chilling treat.' Greg Bear, author ofEonandTake Back the Sky

'Kress wisely keeps her global catastrophe on a human scale, eschewing superheroic action for tense realism. This urgent, deeply satisfying story is as tenacious and inspiring as its heroine.' Publishers Weekly

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Fantasy Literature Favorite Book of 2020
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Kress writes a brilliantly imagined near future complete with false identities and analog spycraft mixed into an aggressively digital world in which greenhouses hiding GMO carrots are as vulnerable as missile bases, 'drivie' houses cruise unassisted down streets, and disinformation campaigns blaze on social media."
--Booklist

"Nobody is better at destroying the world--see one of my favorite novellas, the multi-award-winning After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall--but here Nancy Kress dives into the science of genetically modified plants and shows us how we just may need them to save the planet. And this brilliant, thoughtful story is also a page-turner."
--Daryl Gregory, award-winning writer of Spoonbenders

"Kress wisely keeps her global catastrophe on a human scale, eschewing superheroic action for tense realism. This urgent, deeply satisfying story is as tenacious and inspiring as its heroine."
--Publishers Weekly

"A strong, striking look at a a possible future, and the courage that will allow us to survive it."
--Laura Anne Gilman, author of Heat of Briar and Soul of Fire

"Sea Change is like liquid nitrogen ice cream--a chilling treat. Right next door to the future, filled with dark wit--a fine addition to Kress's work."
--Greg Bear, author of Eon and Take Back the Sky

"Sharp, spare, and journalistic."
--Foreword (Book of the Day pick)

"Nancy Kress' Sea Change novella shows that she's still the master of biological disruption and human insight."
--Amazing Stories

"Dramatic, full of wonderful details and characters, all in all a satisfying and thoughtful read. But I would expect no less from Kress."
--Deborah J. Ross, author of the Lace and Blade series

"A realistic climate fiction with superb plot and memorable characters. It actually reads like a Hollywood thriller!"
--Strange Horizons

"This new work of fiction from Nebula Award winning author Nancy Kress, Sea Change (Tachyon) is a riveting climate-change techno-thriller."
--Environmental Magazine, "What We're Reading Now"

20 2020 Sci-Fi Books to Read Based on Your Favorite Star Trek Character "Character: B'Elanna Torres. Renata/Caroline Denton is a lawyer and operative in an underground science organization whose research could save the world. B'Elanna should enjoy the who-done-it turn the book takes when a spy infiltrates the group and only Renata can discover who it is. "
--StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website

"Another excellent, fast-paced read from one of speculative fiction's most consistent voices."
--Christopher East

"5/5 stars. Sea Change, a forthcoming novella by acclaimed writer Nancy Kress, is everything I love about speculative fiction. The story has a compelling near-future setting, is full of smart characters with sharply written dialogue, and is so thematically rich and progressive."
--Back Shelf Books

"Nancy Kress is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. Her use of science is tricky and thought-provoking, her command of fiction sharp and full of feeling."
--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Years of Rice and Salt

"Kress brilliantly weaves together two halves of a bio-thriller about GMOs and climate change that blooms logically from our immediate past and into one possible catastrophic near future."
--Patrick Swenson, author of The Ultra Thin Man

"This taut, suspenseful near-future ecothriller combines a frighteningly plausible ecological/economic collapse scenario with genuine human emotion. A winner!"
--David D. Levine, author of Arabella of Mars

"[Kress] successfully combines secret societies/conspiracies, genetically modified organisms (GMO), Native Americans, climate change/environmental disaster, celebrity culture, and personal tragedies."
--NF3 Review

"I enjoyed Sea Change tremendously, not only for the strength of Kress's character work but for the ways in which she tackles difficult subjects like environmental collapse, the fraught legal status of people living on reservations in America, grief and the different ways people cope with loss, and the often-surprising ways people express their hope for a better future. Sea Change is a short novel with a powerful impact, and I highly recommend it."
--Fantasy Literature

"In a word, fantastic. Ms. Kress has crafted a brilliant and frighteningly realistic near future world."
--Disciples of Boltax

"Kress, a long-established master of conjectural sci-fi, renders a global-scale conflict in intimate terms."
--1000 Year Plan

Author Bio

Nancy Kress is the bestselling author of more than thirty science-fiction and fantasy novels and novellas, including Beggars in Spain, Probability Space, and Steal Across the Sky. To date, she has also published more than ten short-story collections and three nonfiction books for Writers Digest on the fundamentals of writing. Kress is a six-time Nebula Award winner, including two consecutive awards for her novellas After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall and Yesterdays Kin. She is also the recipient of the Sturgeon and Campbell awards, as well as two Hugo awards. Her fiction has been translated into nearly two dozen languages, including Klingon. Kress teaches writing at workshops, including Clarion West and Taos Toolbox, as well as at the University of Leipzig in Germany, as a guest professor. Kress lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, the author Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the worlds most spoiled toy poodle.