Camp Zero - Softcover

Sterling, Michelle Min

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399802321 ISBN 13: 9781399802321

Publisher: John Murray, 2023

Synopsis

'A cold, hungry adventure story about the power of choice and the strength of solidarity' SEAN MICHAELS

America, 2049: Summer temperatures are intolerably high, the fossil fuel industry has shut down, and humans are implanted with a 'Flick' at birth, which allows them to remain perpetually online. The wealthy live in the newly created Floating City off the coast, while people on the mainland struggle to get by. For Rose, a job as a hostess in the city's elite club feels like her best hope for a better future.

At a Cold War-era research station, a group of highly trained women with the code name White Alice are engaged in climate surveillance. But the terms of their employment become increasingly uncertain.

And in a former oil town in northern Canada called Dominion Lake, a camp is being built-Camp Zero. A rare source of fresh, clean air and cooler temperatures, it will be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. Grant believes it will be the perfect place to atone for his family's dark legacy.

Everyone has an agenda. So who can you trust? Could falling in love be most the radical act of all?

Thrilling, immersive and disturbingly prescient, Camp Zero is about the world we've built and where we go from here.

About this title

About the Author

Michelle Min Sterling was born in British Columbia, Canada, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches literature and writing at Berklee College of Music. Camp Zero is her first novel.

From the Back Cover

A cold, hungry adventure story about the power of choice and the strength of solidarity' SEAN MICHAELS



America, 2049: Summer temperatures are intolerably high, the fossil fuel industry has shut down, and humans are implanted with a 'Flick' at birth, which allows them to remain perpetually online. The wealthy live in the newly created Floating City off the coast, while people on the mainland struggle to get by. For Rose, a job as a hostess in the city's elite club, feels like her best hope for a better future.



At a Cold War-era research station, a group of highly-trained women with the code-name White Alice are engaged in climate surveillance. But the terms of their employment become increasingly uncertain.



And in a former oil town in northern Canada called Dominion Lake, a camp is being built-Camp Zero. A rare source of fresh, clean air and cooler temperatures, it will be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. Grant believes it will be the perfect place to atone for his family's dark legacy.



Everyone has an agenda. So who can you trust? Could falling in love be most the radical act of all?



Thrilling, immersive and disturbingly prescient Camp Zero is about the world we've built and where we go from here.



** John Murray Press' lead fiction title for 2023 **

Edition details

• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399802321
• ISBN 13: 9781399802321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304