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Book SynopsisChildren 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.
Table of ContentsCentury’ s Beginning1 Extinction 2 Campus 3 Bleach 4 Committed 5 Benji 6 Storm Century’ s Middle7 Adrift 8 The Pier 9 Strike 10 16chan 11 Weatheralls 12 Tipping Points Century’ s End13 The Drifter 14 Meltwater 15 Seastead 16 Eden 17 The Great Rewilding 18 Third Rock from the Fire
