Category: Restoration

Posts about my forthcoming science fiction novel, Restoration

What is the role of a writer as climate change creeps up on us?

December 3, 2015

It’s a ripe scene for satire. Twenty-five thousand bureaucrats and another 25,000 hangers-on are gathered in Paris at COP21 to exchange climate change jargon over sustainable wine and cheese. It’s hard, however, to ignore the seriousness of their effort, especially as a pall lingers over the city three weeks after the November 13 terror attacks. … More What is the role of a writer as climate change creeps up on us?

Restoring the environment is a good thing. Or maybe not?

January 24, 2015

One of the great things about speculative fiction is the power to challenge strongly held values in the safety of a society that exists only in the writer’s imagination. In the Pacific Northwest, at least on the wet side of the Cascade Mountains, we’re all “green,” that is, we believe in letting trees grow unmolested, … More Restoring the environment is a good thing. Or maybe not?