Children of Tomorrow

A novel

J.R. Burgmann

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UPSWELL
07 March 2023

Ethical issues & debates; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Global warming; Social impact of environmental issues; Australian Fiction

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. This web of characters struggle, both individually and collectively, through a time of unprecedented, escalating change. 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.

By: J.R. Burgmann
Imprint: UPSWELL
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9780645536959
ISBN 10: 0645536954
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J.R. Burgmann is a writer and critic. He is based at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub. 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 Hot Desk Fellowship.