Appleseed A Novel

Matt Bell

eBook - 2021

From the 1700s to the far future, this speculative novel depicts how climate change has—and will—devastate Earth and humanity.A New York Times Notable BookA Philadelphia Inquirer Best of the Year"Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell's Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious." —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in TroubleIn eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will... be tested, fractured and broken—and possibly healed.Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change... more