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  • Paperback Edition
    • 978-1-03-831829-9
    • 6.0 x 9.0 inches
    • Standard Color interior
    • 270 pages
  • Hardcover Edition
    • 978-1-03-831830-5
    • 6.0 x 9.0 inches
    • Standard Color interior
    • 270 pages
  • Keywords
    • Climate change science,
    • Climate fiction,
    • Science and tech,
    • Environmental disaster,
    • Ecological restoration,
    • Beavers and their habitats,
    • Dystopian fiction

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Domesteaders
Cloud 8.5
by Curtis Palmer


In a world facing the dystopian challenges of climate change, beaver ethologist Beavan Broderick is doing everything he can to protect the future, one pond at a time. When he meets an eccentric family secretly working on a miraculously strong, silky substance they join forces. Together they develop a materials technology that returns the dirigible to our skies and elevates the housing market literally, into the air, buoyed by aerostats. This motley group of academics, scientists, and artists unexpectedly find themselves members of a team tasked with a twenty-first-century solution to an existential threat we all face. This solution is critically dependent on Canada’s national animal: the beaver!

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Curtis L. Palmer has a B.Sc., an M. Des. in Industrial Design, and was a student of Buckminster Fuller, crossing the continent to study with him. He is a computer-aided designer, CPU whisperer, guitarist, and animator who has published papers, exhibited prints and sculptures, and screened short films on mathematical art since 2005 with the Bridges Organization MathArt Conferences, Generative Art Conferences, and Joint Mathematics Meetings. He published Omniopticon, Design Alternatives for a Spherical Projection System in 1994. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife and son.


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