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Solitaire Townsend is a climate expert by day, and storyteller by night. After decades of teaching governments, global brands and even movie studios how to communicate sustainability, she now has stories of her own to tell.
Godstorm is her debut novel.
She regularly blogs for Forbes, has a popular TED talk, and wrote the critically acclaimed non-fiction book The Solutionists.
While some of her characters might not know that they are 'LGBTQIA+' or 'neurodivergent', Solitaire does because she’s also both. She lives in London, and once visited an oil-rig in the Amazon, which caught on fire. ...more

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Could the Ancient Romans have invented the combustion engine?

A dear scientist friend read an early draft of Godstorm and sent me a message: “You haven’t burned enough oil.”

I stared at that sentence for a long time. Then I laughed, made myself a cup of tea, and read the spreadsheet where he’d calculated how much petroleum a fictional Roman Empire would need to combust to cook the planet 1,700 years early.

The problem was brutally simple. Even with Marcus

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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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