Frostlands

TitleFrostlands
Year for Search2018
AuthorsFeffer, John
Pagination163 pp.
Date Published2018
PublisherHaymarket Books
Place PublishedChicago, IL
ISBN Number978-1-60846-948-2
KeywordsMale author, US author
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Second volume of a series that is connected to 2016 and 2021 Feffer but telling a different story. This volume focuses on the conflict between a large corporation that has developed a treatment that greatly extends life, hoping to save the wealthiest one percent of the population and a woman, the wife of the protagonist in the first volume, who is developing a method for radically cooling the climate. An AI used by the corporation but captured and reprogrammed by the community where the woman lives also plays an important role.

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Second volume of a series that is connected to 2016 and 2021 Feffer but telling a different story. This volume focuses on the conflict between a large corporation that has developed a treatment that greatly extends life, hoping to save the wealthiest one percent of the population and a woman, the wife of the protagonist in the first volume, who is developing a method for radically cooling the climate. An AI used by the corporation but captured and reprogrammed by the community where the woman lives also plays an important role. The author is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank located in Washington, DC.