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Solitaire Townsend

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Solitaire Townsend is a renowned climate author and is co-founder & Chief Solutionist at Futerra and Chair of The Solutions Union charity. She holds master’s degrees in both Sustainability and Shakespeare.

Her popular TED talk, Forbes column, and most recent book – The Solutionists – are available online. She is LGBTQIA, neurodivergent and sanguine about being named after a Bond girl.

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	Godstorm 3.67 avg rating — 101 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Where's Granny Weatherwax When You Need Her?

I’m old-ish. Not very old, as in happily retired, or really old, bundled up in a care home.

But not young. My knees hurt, I have LOTS of memories, and those memories act as a buffer against the horrors of the world.

Not because today’s horrors aren’t upsetting and overwhelming. But because they aren’t the first horrors I’ve seen. They don’t have the fresh bite unfamiliarity, like when I first sa

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Solitaire Townsend wrote a new blog post Where's Granny Weatherwax When You Need Her? I’m old-ish. Not very old, as in happily retired, or really old, bundled up in a care home.But not young. My knees hurt, I have LOTS of memories, and Read more of this blog post »
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Solitaire Townsend and 2 other people liked Gil's review of Godstorm: "4.5 ⭐ This was an amazing and refreshing debut. If you are looking for a vaguely historical slightly sci-fi novel that feels like a fantasy but isn’t, this book does that. It also has a resultantly steampunk vibe and a beautiful found family narrativ" Read more of this review »
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Solitaire Townsend liked A.K. Adler's review of Godstorm: "A brilliant concept, with a Roman Empire that invented the internal combustion engine, and an 18th-century government full of climate change deniers. There are some obvious parallels with our world, but this takes climate fiction in a truly inventive" Read more of this review »
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Solitaire Townsend and 3 other people liked Kai Moore-Austen's review of Godstorm: "DISCLAIMER: I received this book as an Early ARC through NetGalley. Wow! I really enjoyed this book. I was drawn in early, intrigued by the premise and the way it was written. The novel has some really good twists and turns, and things I did not expec" Read more of this review »
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