{"product_id":"kraken-calling-isbn-9781644211441","title":"Kraken Calling","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sweeping near future dystopic fantasy in the Octavia Butlerian vein of the \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower \u003c\/i\u003enovels.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical activist and anarchist author Aric McBay (\u003ci\u003eFull Spectrum Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e) toggles between the years 2028 and 2051 to give us the experience, with breathtaking realism, of what might happen in the span of just one generation to a society that is already on the brink of collapse.\u003cbr\u003e       In 2028 environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded, the revolution is brought to the activists, rather than the other way around, by an authoritarian government willing to resort to violence, willing to let the majority suffer from hunger and poverty, in order to control its citizens when the government can no longer provide them with a decent quality of life.\u003cbr\u003e        So it is the activists who must defend their communities, their neighbors, through a more humane and in some ways more conservative status quo of care and moderation.\u003cbr\u003e        And the outcome here is determined by the actions of those who resist more than it is by the actions of the nominally powerful.\u003cbr\u003e “McBay’s passion combined with the tale’s escalating stakes and adrenaline-fueled conflict will reel in readers and hold them rapt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn urgent call to action cloaked in a sprawling dystopian debut\u003c\/b\u003e.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Political and climate activist McBay makes his fiction debut with this dystopia exploring a resistance movement via two alternating time lines. In 2028, disparate activist groups both clash and collaborate in an attempt to stem the tides of climate change and fascism. In 2051, the failures of the previous generation have allowed a fascist pseudo-government to come to power, and an underground resistance is the only hope of ending the oppression of the York Emergency Authority and its “triage” system. . . \u003cb\u003eWith an almost instructional focus on the inner workings of political resistance, \u003ci\u003eKraken Calling\u003c\/i\u003e is both a cautionary tale and an inspiring call to action that will appeal to left-leaning readers seeking to create social change\u003c\/b\u003e.\" — \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eARIC MCBAY\u003c\/b\u003e is an organizer, a farmer, and author of four books, including, most recently \u003ci\u003eFull Spectrum Resistance \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), a two-volume guide to direct action. He writes and speaks about effective social movements, and has organized campaigns around prison justice, Indigenous solidarity, pipelines, unionization, and other causes. \u003ci\u003eKraken Calling\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel. You can find his work at www.aricmcbay.org.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304191971557,"sku":"NP9781644211441","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644211441.jpg?v=1767730855","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/kraken-calling-isbn-9781644211441","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}