Claire Holroyde is a writer and graphic designer living outside of Philadelphia.
The Effort is her first novel.
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My Book, The Movie: The Effort]
At CrimeReads Holroyde tagged
three titles from her favorite recent climate/disaster fiction, including:
A killer and a hero in climate/disaster fiction can even be one in the same. Appleseed by Matt Bell, one of the most original and daring novels of 2021, raises the stakes to humanity’s potential self-destruction. Bell artfully weaves three timelines and multiple incarnations of protagonist John into a complex, epic tale. The middle timeline begins fifty years into our future, after 
coastal flooding in the East and a massive California earthquake have weakened the American government enough for a takeover by Earthtrust corporation. In a climate where all plants and animals are dead or dying, Earthtrust’s genetically engineered crops and livestock are the only way to feed the global population. Earthtrust is all-powerful and continues to execute plans for its end goal unchecked—but for John. In this timeline, John is John Worth, one of the original founders of Earthtrust. John and four other ex-Earthtrust employees are returning to headquarters in Ohio to destroy what they helped build. John doesn’t want to be a killer or a hero. “Maybe all he can do is keep trying to give the world back to itself, to continue to free whatever he can from the long damage of human want.” The path to redemption exceeds John’s imagination when faced with the choice to kill the whole human race in order to stop our destruction of the planet; death so that there can be life.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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