Sea Change

New from the Nebula Award winning author of Beggars in Spain: A riveting climate-change technothriller of espionage, conspiracy, and stakes so high they could lead to the destruction of humanity itself. In this environmental page-turner, activist lawyer Renata Black--covert member of the Org--must go deep underground to unravel the truth behind the ecological disaster that has paralyzed the food industry and destroyed her family. "Sea Change is like liquid nitrogen ice cream--a chilling treat."--Greg Bear, author of Eon and Take Back the Sky Operative Renata Black has a serious problem--a self-driving house causing a traffic snarl. When Renata spots the Org's Tiffany Teal paint marking a windowsill, she discovers a dangerous mystery within the house itself. In 2022, GMOs were banned after a bio-pharmed drug caused the Catastrophe: worldwide economic collapse, agricultural standstill, and personal tragedy for a lawyer and her son. Ten years later, Renata, a.k.a. Caroline Denton, is a member of the Org, an underground group of scientists, functioning in splinter cells that are hunted by the feds. But the Org's illegal food-research might hold the key to rebuilding the worlds' food supply. Now there's a mole in the Org, and Black is the only one who can find out who it is. At risk: the possibility of a second, even more devastating climate collapse. For answers, Black will need to go all the way to her Quinault Nation legal clients, to reveal environmental dangers--and solutions--that the world has not been willing to face. Nancy Kress, one of our finest speculative writers, once again delivers a smart, mesmerizing, and surprisingly nuanced look at the ecological, technological, and political shifts we cannot afford to avoid.