Tim Ward writes: "When we think about Climate Change - temperature forecasts, shifting rainfall patterns, ice caps melting -- it's both too big and too far away to imagine vividly, as if it were happening to us, to the people we know and care about. Clarke Owens has written a gripping crime thriller, set in 2051 in Wooster, Ohio, that fully imagines a world in which climate trends have simply continued to unfold as scientists predict.

The result is an America on the brink. In 600 ppm, wildfires have burnt the west; droughts have baked the south; the east coast is drowning as sea levels rise, and Ohio, the heartland, has relentless rainfall and thunderstorms. Jeff Claymarker, 26, the protagonist, recalls that a few times in his life he's seen blue in the sky, in patches. "It blows my mind when it's blue," he says.

Tim ward has interviewed Clarke Owens for Huffington Post, and you can read the whole piece here.

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