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"Axa0brilliantly imagined eco-punk future filled with memorable characters locked in a life-or-death contest to control the direction of Earth's climate in the 21st century." -August Cole, author of Ghost Fleet and Burn-In " Veil is about collapse, redemption, and heroes. As always, Peper's near-future science fiction will stick with you." -Seth Godin, bestselling author and entrepreneur "This is the best kind of science fiction, in which the overriding issue of our time, climate change, is addressed with vivid characters serving as exemplars of the roles we need to take on in the coming decades, all gnarled into a breath-taking plot. I hope it's the first of many such novels creating climate fiction for our time." -Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author of Red Mars "A modern parable about ecological collapse, climate change, technology, and power." - OneZero "Near-term science fiction at its absolute best. Peper consistently makes step function leaps in imagination. Veil is so crazy relevant and timely." -Brad Feld, managing director at Foundry Group "Eerily prescient speculative fiction." - Axios " Veil is the tale we need to confront climate change. Peper deftly explores one of the most controversial ideas on the climate agenda--solar geoengineering--and its geopolitical quandaries--raising tough questions and showing why we require new forms of governance to answer them." -Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative and former UN assistant secretary-general for climate change "Beautifully captures the mix of mourning and resolve that pervades this apocalyptic moment." -Brendan Koerner, contributing editor at Wired and author of The Skies Belong to Us "Peper turns his attention to the future of geoengineering in his latest tech thriller. The lives of billions are at stake." - Polygon "A wild ride through the Anthropocene, a near-future where geoengineering and climate grief clash head-on, and help unveil a path for meaning in our rapidly changing world. You're going to love this book." -Eric Holthaus, climate correspondent for The Correspondent "Fantastic novel addressing an imminent geopolitical, moral, and techno-economic issue: who dictates the Earth's climate in this century? Strong characterization, genuine emotional development, dead-on technical accuracy, and a fun, fast pace." -Matt Ocko, managing partner at DCVC "A taut near-future science-fiction thriller, with themes that resonate. Highly recommended." -Templeton Gate "Technologists are inventing the future--a future cut through with their own flaws and hubris as much as it is informed by their ingenuity. Veil imagines a world in which truth, politics, and nature itself are at the mercy of human engineering, for better and for worse. This is an adventure that will stick with you long after you reach the end." -Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist "Thrilling, thoughtful, and richly imagined. A lovely book about a terrifically important subject." -Oliver Morton, author of The Planet Remade and briefings editor at The Economist "Death, despair, and plenty of hope. This sci-fi thriller has it all, plus plenty of scientific grounding to contemplate how solar geoengineering might play out on a planet struggling to bring global warming under control." -Gernot Wagner, author of Climate Shock and Bloomberg's Risky Climate column "Peper delivers his best novel yet. Veil is filled with diverse characters, complicated relationships, and ethical dilemmas that are sure to spark late night debates. A Michael Crichton-style tech thriller." - The Geekiverse "Interrogates Anthropocene themes with respect to their complexity and wickedness." - Alternative Fictions "Eliot Peper weighs the promises--and perils--of geoengineering in this tautly paced thriller which, in its final chapters, offers an intriguing solution and that most welcome of messages: a glimmer of hope." -Meg Howrey, author of The Wanderers Eliot Peper is the author of Cumulus , True Blue , Neon Fever Dream , the Uncommon Series, and the Analog Series. His speculative thrillers have been praised by the New York Times Book Review , Popular Science , San Francisco Magazine , Businessweek , io9 , Boing Boing , and Ars Technica . He has helped build technology businesses, survived dengue fever, translated Virgil's Aeneid from the original Latin, worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm, and explored the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review , the Verge , Tor.com , TechCrunch , VICE , and the Los Angeles Review of Books , and he has been a speaker at Google, Comic Con, SXSW, Future in Review, and the Conference on World Affairs.Visit eliotpeper.com to learn more--and to sign up for his reading-recommendation newsletter.
Features & Highlights
- "This is the best kind of science fiction." -Kim Stanley Robinson
- When her mother dies in a heat wave that kills twenty million, Zia León abandons a promising diplomatic career to lead humanitarian aid missions to regions ravaged by drought, wildfires, and sea level rise.What Zia doesn't know is that clandestine forces are gathering around her in pursuit of a colossal secret: someone has hijacked the climate, and the future of human civilization is at stake.To avoid a world war that appears more inevitable every day, Zia must build a coalition of the powerless and attempt the impossible. But success depends on facing the grief that has come to define her life, and rediscovering friendship, family, and what it means to be true to yourself while everything falls apart.
