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The #1 Top Marinovich Fiction Read of the year
Best of a New Genre, included in “12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read”
Eco-Fiction Honorable Mention
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 spent an enormous $5.3 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2014, following talks in Lima and the largest climate change march in world history when world leaders converged for an emergency UN Climate Summit in New York City. 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.
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I just finished "Nature's Confession" by JL Morin and it was a different kind of book than I usually read. A young man wonders why everyone is not paid more for more important work. He starts on a unbelievable part of his life. Can anyone help his planet that is full of pollution? He, along with his girlfriend invent computers that are alive. These 2 young people are going to try to save everyone. How can they fight the big groups? Will they find a way to fix everything? Will they begin to care for each other? I give this book s 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions a re mine.
Nature’s Confession couldn’t be more timely, just as the IMF reveals that governments
spent an enormous $5.3 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2014, following talks in Lima and the largest climate
change march in world history when world leaders converged for an emergency UN
Climate Summit in New York City.
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.
1.
When did you first
realize you wanted to be a writer?
When
I was in eighth grade. My English teacher had us keep a journal, and I never
stopped writing. What a great assignment! English teachers, have your students
keep a journal and hand it in once in a while. You’ll be surprised what they’ll
share with you. My middle-school writing is responsible for at least one drug
bust.
2.
How long does it take
you to write a book?
It
went from a decade to three years, so I think I’m on the road.
3.
What is your work
schedule like when you're writing?
Very
hectic. It’s hard to get anything else done.
4.
What would you say is
your interesting writing quirk?
Writing
before I go to sleep, or turning on the light in the middle of the night to jot
down my dreams or thoughts as I’m falling to sleep.
5.
How do books get
published?
More
and more. There are so many books being published today. The real problem is
how to sell them, or how to find the good ones.
6.
Where do you get your
information or ideas for your books?
From
snatches of conversation, things that make me laugh or cry, people I love.
7.
When did you write your
first book and how old were you?
I
started it when I was 20 and finished at around 30. That was my Japan novel,
Sazzae, which I handed in as my thesis at Harvard, and then worked on for
several years afterwards. It won an eLit Gold Medal.
8.
What do you like to do
when you're not writing?
Swim,
bicycle, read.
9.
What does your family
think of your writing?
They
enjoy the end products, but probably mostly find my occupation annoying because
it takes me away from them. Writing isn’t the kind of activity that wins you
lots of friends, for the same reason, especially when you write about them.
People would much rather be interacting than be written about.
10.
What was one of the most
surprising things you learned in creating your books?
11.
How many books have you
written? Which is your favorite?
Four.
This one is my favorite because it is the most profound in its themes.
12.
Do you have any
suggestions to help me become a better writer? If so, what are they?
Keep
on writing. The more you do it, the more material you have to draw on. Second,
re-write, and re-write again.
13.
Do you hear from your
readers much? What kinds of things do they say?
Yes,
I always enjoy hearing from readers, especially when they say positive things.
Different readers appreciate different aspects of my writing. Sometimes their
favorite parts are things I forgot I even wrote.
14.
Do you like to create
books for adults?
Yes,
but I think it’s not as great a challenge as writing Young Adult books. You can
sit back and refer to things rather than having to create a whole world.
15.
What do you think makes
a good story?
Suspense
and style are important for me, as are the relationships between the
characters. I like a universal theme, and strong lessons in a story.
16.
As a child, what did you
want to do when you grew up?
I
originally dreamed of being a space colonist, but, as a product of the Detroit
Public School system, soon realized there were certain limitations. At the end
of high school, I won 3rd place in the International Science and Engineering
Fair for a project cloning plasmids in yeast cells to discover a genetic
mechanism regulating fermentation. I went on to Harvard with the intention of
studying biochemistry, but, repulsed by enormous chemistry lectures, U-turned
into creative writing.
17.
What Would you like my
readers to know?
That
we can’t keep growing. We need to shrink to survive. we’ve reached our
saturation point, where we’ve polluted the environment we live in to the extent
that life is threatened. If we continue growing exponentially, the environment
won’t sustain us. And all this at a time when newspapers talk about growing
more first and foremost. How do you reprogram the human race to question growth
itself, when the foundation of modern economics is the assumption ‘growth is
good’—not only a big assumption, a wrong assumption. In fact, Senior Economist
at the World Bank, Herman E. Daly and Dr. Kenneth N. Townsend have proven (http://dieoff.org/page37.htm) that we can’t grow our way out of poverty and
environmental degradation. Sustainable economic growth is impossible, since the
economy is an open subsystem of the Earth ecosystem, which is finite,
non-growing, and materially closed. As the economic subsystem grows, it engulfs
more and more of the ecosystem in which it exists and is bound to reach a limit
when it ‘incorporates’ (their words) 100 percent of the ecosystem, if not
before. Thus, the economy’s infinite growth is by Nature not sustainable. So that’s
the message: as MakSym puts it, man over Nature is obsolete.
I just finished "Nature's Confession" by JL Morin and it was a different kind of book than I usually read. A young man wonders why everyone is not paid more for more important work. He starts on a unbelievable part of his life. Can anyone help his planet that is full of pollution? He, along with his girlfriend invent computers that are alive. These 2 young people are going to try to save everyone. How can they fight the big groups? Will they find a way to fix everything? Will they begin to care for each other? I give this book s 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions a re mine.
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