UPSURGE: A Novel
UPSURGE blends contemporary realism, psychological fantasy, politics, and science fiction in telling of a visionary scientist, his pregnant wife (a school teacher and former actress), and their teenaged daughter, whose dreams and fears about the world’s future lead her to become trapped in a hidden, fantastic, and frightening place.
The novel is intricately related to the author’s 2003 novel APPEARING LIVE AT THE FINAL TEST.
At once a sci-fi fantasy and a thoroughly engrossing love story…
Janet Poppendieck
Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, City College of New York Author, SWEET CHARITY? EMERGENCY FOOD AND THE END OF ENTITLEMENT
Teton’s characters and their emotional complexities are so firmly established early on that by the time readers are transported to the author’s dizzying alternate realities, we’re hooked…
Debo Kotun
Author, ABIKU;
Producer, Pacifica Radio Network
A rare treat…John Teton brings to life a family in crisis—a father on the verge of an earth-shattering scientific discovery, a mother approaching childbirth, and a teenage daughter who runs away when she becomes overwhelmed with despair about poverty and hunger—a theme that runs throughout the book. UPSURGE brings real family dynamics and real politics together in great science fiction.
Eric R. A. N. Smith
Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies University of California, Santa Barbara Author, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND PUBLIC OPINION