Alice, climate change and the cat Zeta
Alice, climate change and the cat Zeta ( English title: Alice, the Zeta Cat and Climate Change: A fairytale about the truth ) is a Cli-Fi -Buch of Margret Boysen ; it was published on March 17th, 2016 by Edition Rugerup .
content
On a school trip to the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam , Alice runs after a white rabbit - and slides into the ventilation shaft of the supercomputer at a climate research institute. This is followed by a journey through the virtual world of computer models, from the tropical rainforest to the silent ice of the Antarctic .
The story begins with small arithmetic steps in the snow, culminates in a chaotic climate congress that mutates into a court case, and even leads to prison, where luckily gravitational physics provides a liberating formula at the right time.
Edition and issues
The German original edition comprises 278, the French 296 and the (planned) English edition 264 pages.
Translations
The book has been translated into French and English . The titles are Alice, le Chat Zeta et la Change Climatique and Alice, the Zeta Cat and Climate Change ”: A fairytale about the truth .