Frostlands
Title | Frostlands |
Year for Search | 2018 |
Authors | Feffer, John |
Pagination | 163 pp. |
Date Published | 2018 |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Place Published | Chicago, IL |
ISBN Number | 978-1-60846-948-2 |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | 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. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Full Text | 2018 Feffer, John. Frostlands. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books. 163 pp. PSt 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. |