The Gaia Solution

The Gaia Collection #3

by Claire Buss

Kira, Jed and their friends have fled New Corporation and joined the Resistance, but their relief is short-lived as they discover how decimated the human race has become and learn of an environmental crisis that threatens to destroy their existence. Kira and Jed must travel up the mountain to the New Corporation stronghold, City 50, to bargain for sanctuary while Martha and Dina risk everything to return to City 42 and save those who are left. With the last of her reserves Gaia, the fading spirit of the Earth uses her remaining influence to guide Kira and her friends but ultimately, it's up to humanity to make the right choice.

259 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 8, 2019

About the author

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Claire Buss is a multi-genre author and poet based in the UK. She wanted to be Lois Lane when she grew up but work experience at her local paper was eye-opening. Instead, Claire went on to work in a variety of admin roles for over a decade but never felt quite at home. An avid reader, baker and Pinterest addict Claire won second place in the Barking and Dagenham Pen to Print writing competition in 2015 with her debut novel, The Gaia Effect, setting her writing career in motion.

~Writing passionately and hopelessly addicted to cake~

Claire's Books:

The Gaia Effect, a hopeful dystopian novel and winner of the 2017 Raven Award for favourite Scifi/Fantasy novel, was published in 2016.

The Gaia Project, the sequel to The Gaia Effect and second book in The Gaia Collection, published in October 2018.

The Gaia Solution, the third book in The Gaia Collection, is on Kindle pre-order right now and will be published in paperback and ebook on 8th November 2019.

The Rose Thief, a humorous fantasy inspired by Claire's love of Terry Pratchett and set in Roshaven was published in November 2017. It won the Raven Award for best Sci-fi/Fantasy book in 2019.

The Silk Thief, Roshaven Book 2.

The Bone Thief, Roshaven Book 3.

The Interspecies Poker Tournament, a humorous fantasy novella, set before The Rose Thief in the city of Roshaven, published in May 2019.

Ye Olde Magick Shoppe, a humorous fantasy short story from the world of Roshaven, published 2019.

Tales from Suburbia, a collection of humorous plays, blogs and short stories was published in July 2017 *available as an audiobook*

Tales from the Seaside, winner of the 2018 Best Indie Book, is a collection of humorous short stories inspired by life at the seaside with two small children, published in July 2018 *available as an audiobook*

The Blue Serpent & other tales, a collection of flash fiction stories, published in March 2018.

Flashing Here & There, a second collection of flash fiction stories, published in July 2019.

Claire has had two short stories published in 2017. 'Underground Scratchings' can be found in the sci-fi and fantasy anthology Tales from the Underground, published by Inklings Press. 'Patient Data' can be found in the sci-fi anthology The Quantum Soul, published by SciFi Roundtable. A joint short story, A Christmas Badger, was written with CH Clepitt and published in the Sparkly Badgers' Christmas Anthology. Dress Like An Animal flash fiction and Afraid of the Dark poem can be found in Haunted - The Sparkly Badgers' Anthology.

She has also published a series of poetry books - Little Book of Verse, Little Book of Spring, Little Book of Summer, Spooky Little Book, Little Book of Autumn, Little Book of Winter, Little Book of Love & Little Book of Christmas.

You can follow her on Twitter @grashopper2407, Facebook.com/busswriter and visit her website www.clairebuss.co.uk for more information about Claire and her writing.


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Reviews

[Daphne Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

We meet up with Kira, Jed, and their faithful friends one more time in the final book of this wonderful distopian trilogy. They join the Resistance just in time to realize that things are much worse than they seem. New Corps City 50 is their last hope for sanctuary and Gaia is fading. Clair Buss puts heart, action, and intrigue into every book of this series and wrapped it up beautifully.

[Simon Leonard · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was lucky enough to be a beta reader for this book as with previous ones and it is a great book. It follows on nicely from book 2 and is such a great story. It is very sad in places but also has lots of happy bits, making the whole thing a very moving book

[Debbie McGowan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Gaia Solution is the perfect ending to this trilogy. While in many respects, it's less 'action-packed' than the first two instalments, it takes a necessary spiritual/emotional journey as our intrepid band of everyday heroes search for a way to survive not only the great losses and upheaval they have endured but the imminent environmental crisis.

Even though there are times early on in the series where I wanted to poke the menfolk in the eye for taking charge and ignoring the women, and at times Kira defers when she should have stood up to Jed or whoever, in the end she is the one with the connection to Gaia, and she paves the way to the future. That's what I love most about this trilogy: its exploration and celebration of the power of motherhood.

I'm sad this is the end of the story, but it's a satisfying, optimistic conclusion.

[Martin Frowd · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well-rounded end to an unusual eco-science-fantasy trilogy. Throughout, the characters have been strong and intriguing and Claire Buss doesn't disappoint in this third instalment. Twists and betrayals help bring this series to a solid conclusion.

[Graisi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish I could have rated this higher but it was a disappointing conclusion to the trilogy. This seemed like it would fit better as an ending to the second book instead of a third, because nothing much happened; there wasn't any real conflict aside from the people who died at the beginning. The storyline, which from the beginning was a battle between the Corporation and the protagonists striving for freedom is solved so easily that I was bored. This was surprising, since the first two books were so good.

The trilogy is original in that it is a spiritual dystopian that is not preachy.

A pet peeve with the book is the constant mention of people drinking synth-caf. This obsession was mentioned way too much, though it had no importance to the story. Maybe it was meant to be cute but it just came off as clumsy.

Another thing that bothered me was how they just glossed over Artems betrayal, as if it was no big deal.

[Margena Adams Holmes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Darn it, I'm sad that this is the end of the story of Kira, Martha, Jed and the rest of the group. This had me turning the pages quickly from the get-go and reading far too late into the night, as I was anxious to find out what would happen next. It's a nice ending to the story, but not without some suspense toward the end, casting some doubt on someone in the group. I finished the book with a smile on my face.

[Colleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The three Gaia books really is one book and should be read accordingly. Fast read, not as complex as the Dust series, but an ok read.