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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.Children of Tomorrow is an episodic saga, a sweeping history of family and friendship, spanning multiple generations and geographies across the twenty-first century. 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.

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"""There is a hopeful note at the end of this sensibly pessimistic novel, too. But its impact lies in the warning of what the world would first become - what it would do to each of us, our families and those who have not yet been born - without radical action now."" --Canberra Times. ""Children of Tomorrow is an essential read. An emotionally heavy one, but with plenty of pay-off. Both along the way--the beautiful prose, the projected new technologies and creativity of human beings when facing the worst--and in the end, with the offer and acknowledgement that, in some form at least, things will continue."" --Arts Hub."

"""Children of Tomorrow is an essential read. An emotionally heavy one, but with plenty of pay-off. Both along the way--the beautiful prose, the projected new technologies and creativity of human beings when facing the worst--and in the end, with the offer and acknowledgement that, in some form at least, things will continue."" --Arts Hub."

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J.R. Burgmann is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and received his PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Monash University, where he is based at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub. His co-authored monograph, Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach (Liverpool University Press, 2020), was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award 2020 and Locus Award 2021. Children of Tomorrow, his debut novel, was highly commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021. In 2022 he was awarded a Wheeler Centre Fellowship.

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