Like a lot of people, I have concerns about a variety of issues. But because I’m a novelist, I get to weave the issues I’m worried about into the books I write. My distress about climate change, for instance, led me to write The Shade Ring Trilogy. In The Shade Ring, Albedo Effect and Aerosol Sky I created a near future where oceans have risen fifteen feet as a hotter world causes runaway melting. The scenarios I imagined are founded on a good deal of research about the likel