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'Children of Tomorrow is an episodic saga, a sweeping history of family and friendship, spanning multiple generations and geographies across the twenty-first century. This web of characters struggle, both individually and collectively, through a time of unprecedented, escalating change. Beginning in 2016, Arne Bakke witnesses the historic devastation of that summer’s bushfires across the ancient wilderness of Tasmania. Elsewhere, Londoner Evie Weatherall witnesses extreme climate events in her travels. They each see a dangerous future forming. When their paths collide in Melbourne, Australia, where they are both enrolled in a PhD, they and their group of close friends are set on course to witness and struggle together against the coming century, an age of great individual and planetary loss.
'Children of Tomorrow depicts an all-too-real future history, rushing on at an unstoppable speed and fracturing the lives of its many characters, the effects of which ripple throughout subsequent generations and the earth they inherit.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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A Few Lost People : Climate Fiction as Future Realism
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 453 2023; (p. 32)
— Review of Children of Tomorrow 2023 single work novel'James Burgmann-Milner (writing under the suitably sci-fi alias J.R. Burgmann) knows his cli-fi, or climate fiction. A teaching associate at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, he received his PhD for research on the representation and communication of anthropogenic climate change in literature and other popular media. He is the co-author of Science Fiction and Climate Change: A sociological approach (2020) and has also contributed several insightful reviews of cli-fi works in ABR in recent years, including those of Ned Beauman, James Bradley, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Richard Powers.' (Introduction)
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The Long Heat, an Energy Coup, a Season of Asthma … New Australian Cli-fi Novel Children of Tomorrow Challenges the Form but is Rife with Contradictions
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 March 2023;
— Review of Children of Tomorrow 2023 single work novel
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The Long Heat, an Energy Coup, a Season of Asthma … New Australian Cli-fi Novel Children of Tomorrow Challenges the Form but is Rife with Contradictions
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 March 2023;
— Review of Children of Tomorrow 2023 single work novel -
A Few Lost People : Climate Fiction as Future Realism
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 453 2023; (p. 32)
— Review of Children of Tomorrow 2023 single work novel'James Burgmann-Milner (writing under the suitably sci-fi alias J.R. Burgmann) knows his cli-fi, or climate fiction. A teaching associate at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, he received his PhD for research on the representation and communication of anthropogenic climate change in literature and other popular media. He is the co-author of Science Fiction and Climate Change: A sociological approach (2020) and has also contributed several insightful reviews of cli-fi works in ABR in recent years, including those of Ned Beauman, James Bradley, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Richard Powers.' (Introduction)
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London,
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