Nature's Confession

by JL Morin

Overview

The epic tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet, the universe . . . and their love

"The novel is epic" -The Guardian

1st Place Chanticleer Dante Rossetti Awards Winner
Readers' Favorite International Book Award Winner
Book Excellence Award Finalist
A Top 10 Best Science Fiction book
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention
This cli-fi quest full of romance, honor, and adventure is the #1 Top Marinovich Fiction Read of the year
LitPick 5-Star Review Award Winner
Best of a New Genre, included in “12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read”
Eco-Fiction Honorable Mention— Read the excerpt!
A Best Climate & Environmental Fiction Book

When a smart-mouthed, mixed-race teen wonders why the work that needs to be done pays nothing compared to the busywork glorified on holovision news, the search for answers takes him on the wildest journey of anyone’s lifetime. Their planet is choked with pollution. They can’t do anything about it . . . or can they? With the girl of his dreams, he inadvertently invents living computers. Just as the human race allows corporations to pollute Earth into total desolation, institute martial law and enslave humanity, the two teens set out to save civilization. Can they thwart polluters of Earth and other fertile planets? The heroes come into their own in different kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance. Along the way, they enlist the help of female droid Any Gynoid, who uncovers cutting-edge scientific mysteries. Their quest takes them through the Big Bang and back. Will Starliament tear them from the project and unleash ‘intelligent’ life’s habitual pollution, or will youth lead the way to a new way of coexisting with Nature?

Nature’s Confession couldn’t be more timely, just as the IMF reveals that governments spends more than $5.3 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies annually. With illustrations and topics for discussion at the back of the book, JL Morin entertains questions about busywork; economic incentives to pollute; sustainable energy; exploitation; cyborgs; the sanctity of Nature; and many kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance.

"Morin is proving herself to be one of the most interesting storytellers for teens. What allowed NATURE’S CONFESSION to resonate with me was not only the fast-paced, urgent need to save the world, but the fact that love drove so much of what happens.”—Teen Reads

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154461365
Publisher:	Harvard Square Editions
Publication date:	07/02/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Wondering what the Japanese were doing right, she decamped to Tokyo. JL Morin's debut Japan novel, SAZZAE, won an eLit gold medal and a Living Now Book Award. Her second novel, TRAVELLING LIGHT, was a USA Best Book Awards finalist, and her third, TRADING DREAMS became 'Occupy's first bestselling novel'. Her climate fiction novel, NATURE'S CONFESSION, won first place in the Dante Rossetti Book Awards, and a Readers' Favorite Book Award, a LitPick 5-Star Review Award, and an excerpt received an Honorable Mention in the Eco-Fiction Story Contest. Her virus novel, LOVEOID, is a Book Excellence Finalist, Cygnus Sci-fi Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Semifinalist, and was shortlisted by the Global Thriller Book Award, and the Fish Story Prize. Morin's writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Library Journal, The Detroit News, Agence France Presse, European Daily, and the Livonia Observer Eccentric Newspapers. JL Morin's writing draws on a breadth of experience. She traded derivatives in New York while studying nights for her MBA at New York University's Stern School of Business; worked for the Federal Reserve Bank posted to the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center; presented the news as a TV broadcaster; and is adjunct faculty at Boston University.

Editorial Reviews

"The eco-novel is wonderful...universal symbols are unearthed, codes are investigated, fat corporations are dominating, romance is blossoming, computers come alive, and native tribes and Nature on another planet bring our own treasured past into the future." —The Guardian

"Adventure, satire, dystopia, all in one well-written speculative-fiction package." —5-heart review, Foreword Reviews

"How often do we hear people preach that the youth are the future of the world while doing everything to destroy the world they promise the youth would inherit? That two youngsters should set out to fight for the world they will inherit is a brilliant idea. The plot isn't too complex, but the characters are very interesting and well-developed. Here is a book that is purposeful, written with a vision, and one that every decision maker should read. Nature's Confession is well-written, entertaining, and character-driven; a book that speaks about the one thing everyone should worry about. " —Readers' Favorite

"What I enjoyed the most was the author's ability to combine serious concerns about the environment on Earth, with a sense of humor, at times almost a double-take slapstick, and obviously her wish the polluters on earth, and the policy-makers who foster those polluters could be slapped upside of the head with a dose of reality." —Midwest Book Review

" . . . I have to say it's one of the best books I have ever read." —I Love Books video reviews by Louise Colclough

"Morin is proving herself to be one of the most interesting storytellers for teens" —Teen Reads

"Nature's Confession clearly shows our teens how humans can be both a force for good or bad when it comes to taking care of the Earth." —Library of Clean Reads

"Morin's novel is the literary embodiment of a distinctly different way of perceiving.... This book should be prescribed to every student and school-going child on the planet." —The Mail & Guardian

"J.L. Morin has done an excellent job of getting her message across in a way that provides moments of humor, danger and adventure for younger readers. The discussion topic at the end would provide an opportunity to raise awareness in the classroom and encourage youngsters to 'go green' at every opportunity as they become aware that Earth is our home and depends on us as much as we depend on it." —Tome Tender

"A classic" —Fjords Review

"There is no doubt that this cli-fi (Climate Fiction) piece has a unique plot and creative characters who inhabit not only Earth, but Grod and Phira as well. Of note is Cuppy, a many-tailed pet. There is an educational aspect to the work, with questions for discussion at the end." —InD'Tale Magazine

"A fun, thought-provoking read." —LitPick, 5-Star-Review-Award

"Points to Morin for writing a diverse character without emphasizing his ethnicity . . . . This is a book that gets better the second time around . . . . Nature’s Confession crosses the bridge between teen and adult fiction, and may aspire to be appointed as a new classic." —Offbeat YA

"Such an evocative book" —FreeWord

"Nature's Confession is a riveting contribution to the burgeoning field of climate fiction, providing an imaginative, powerful call for sustainable action over the myopia of corporate logic. " —Dr. Pietari Kääpä, Lecturer in Communications, Media and Culture, University of Stirling

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