Fairhaven at COP29: New Climate Fiction
"Defying Futility - The Fairhaven Stories" and more
At COP28, readers were first introduced to Grace Chan and the world of Fairhaven: an ambitious climate adaptation project joining Penang to the Malaysian coastline. The Fairhaven project is the first of a range of real solutions, presented in a fictional context, that can be deployed to help address the climate crisis. Grace Chan, Kenji Fujimoto, and Tengku Marina Zainal each spearhead one of these solutions and help readers envision, in a fictional context, how they could be deployed at scale in the real world.
Within the story of Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism (read it now), Grace Chan is also an author of stories that address historical disasters, and imagine how the worst impact could have been presented. How could the passengers on the Titanic be saved? Could the devastation of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake have been mitigated? What could have prevented the industrial disasters in Flixborough and Chernobyl? In the fictional Fairhaven universe, these stories become the basis for a TV series that rejects the dystopic “Black Mirror” future and acts as an inspiring “Green Mirror” alternative.
Now, in an exclusive offer, participants at COP29 will have access to a preview of the new companion volume to Fairhaven, entitled Defying Futility - The Fairhaven Stories. Each of the short stories in this full-length book focuses on a real-life tragedy and asks one key question: is disaster inevitable? The lessons we can learn from each of these stories are applicable today to the biggest crisis facing humanity: climate change.
A range of special offers will be available* to our readers. Note: Links for these offers will go live on November 11, 2024, the first day of COP29.
Read a preview edition of Defying Futility - The Fairhaven Stories for just £2.99
Enjoy a 25% discount on the Kindle / eBook edition of Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism at £2.99
Get a four-pack set of environmental fiction from Habitat Press for just £10
*These special offers are available for the digital / eBook versions only. Click here to find out how to access a paper version of Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism and Defying Futility - The Fairhaven Stories (paperback version available starting March 2025).