Sea Change

In Nancy Kress's Sea Change, this stand-alone sci fi novella is about the future outlook for our world and concerning our environment. This story is about Renata Black, a lawyer for the Quinnault Indian tribe, and her fight for changing the planet, one step at a time, starting in 2010. It's also how she fell in love with Jake Sanderson, a rising superstar actor, and how this fight for the environment had affected them and around them.  As an operative for a secret organization for the Department of Agriculture Safety (DAS), they're onto the Org, a radical company who used GMOs for their produce and in the ocean. Fast fast a decade later, it caused a disastrous mess and a bona fide catastrophe, including killing her only child Ian and a few other kids. As a secret agent, she goes by the name of Caroline Denton and searches for answers in the Org. When she gets too close to the answers she's been looking for, she's been found out and is on the run from the law for her quick escape to freedom.

This novella gives us a closer look at our world from a climate-changing/techno-thriller and futuristic thriller view. It gives us a different perspective on our produce, our oceans, and the chemicals that kill people, organism, and animals. I've cared for Renata and how she struggled to deal with a collapsed marriage, the loss of her son, and who were responsible for endangering our planet. I loved the dual locations from Seattle to Oregon in both time periods, then and now. The themes are environmental-conscious with a gentle reminder of what poisons can do to our environment... two years from now too.

If you like novels that focus on the planet with high-stakes drama, tons of suspense, plenty of action, and sparks of eco-friendly hints of espionage, take a chance to read Sea Change today.