About the book

Frostlands (Haymarket Books, 2018), by foreign policy analyst/author/playwright John Feffer, is a dystopian novel featuring an octogenarian heroine coping with a world after climate change. Part of a trilogy, it's a stand-alone sequel to Feffer's earlier novel, Splinterlands. It's available for purchase via independent bookstores, the publisher, and Amazon.

Our role

We'd like to help bring the author to Eugene, Oregon, and other locations in Cascadia (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and beyond) to host a reading/discussion of Frostlands and, separately or in conjunction, conduct one or more workshops for writers. Possible topics:

• Writing That Grabs (full-day workshop, previously conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park)
• Breaking into Political Journalism (two-hour workshop, conducted for the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.)
• Addressing Political Issues via Fiction (new workshop)

Reviews (selected)

“By taking us on a cautionary journey into a future planetary collapse where the term '1 percent' is redefined in a terrifying way, John Feffer forces us to look deeply at our own society’s blindness to ecological apocalypse and greed. But the novel’s enchantment goes beyond dystopia: the quest for salvation depends on a crusty female octogenarian who would make Wonder Woman salivate with envy.”

—Ariel Dorfman

“A worthy sequel to the thought-provoking Splinterlands, Frostlands is triumphant and absorbing science fiction, full of ecological and societal warnings. It is a unique and imaginative look at a future Earth scarred by environmental neglect…. Feffer is focused on the next fifty years or so, with an eye toward avoiding the mostly bleak landscape that Frostlands so vividly captures. Rachel and Arcadia represent the ability of humans to adapt and fight back against even self-inflicted environmental and societal wounds; their story is both edifying and entertaining.”

—Foreword Reviews

About the author

John Feffer has been called a "21st-century Jack London," and his fiction has received accolades from keen-eyed societal observers from Ariel Dorfman to Barbara Ehrenreich. A longtime foreign policy analyst with the Institute for Policy Studies, Feffer is the author of numerous nonfiction works, the dystopian novels Splinterlands and Frostlands, and nine plays that have drawn rave reviews in Washington, D.C. His next novel, The Third Return, is a thriller about three spies, two Koreas, and the DC intern who connects them. Chapters are being released to subscribers weekly on Patreon.