The Hunger of Those Who Built It
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Pub Date Sep 17 2026 | Archive Date Sep 30 2026
Literary Press Group of Canada | Stelliform Press
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Description
In a near-future Paris reshaped by climate urgency, environmental engineer Diane Griffith draws on innovations in vertical agriculture to help design an ambitious model of green urban life meant to heal both city and planet. As the project transforms Paris's historic core, unanswered questions arise - about care, responsibility, and what sustainable progress truly requires. The search for her missing activist sister forces Diane to engage with those questions. Told alongside the future perspective of her niece Lou, who must live with and fight within Diane's legacy, The Hunger of Those Who Built It asks who gets to inherit tomorrow's utopia.
A Note From the Publisher
- For readers of The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, and Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett
- Appeals to readers of literary climate fiction and solarpunk interested in ecological futures, sustainable urbanism, activism, and socially engaged speculative fiction
Advance Praise
"Paris, 2049. Snowstorms, flooded streets, greenhouse humidity, weathered ancient stone. In this sensual portrayal of ecological collapse, the only hope is to rescue the world from the systems that claim to protect it. Save seeds, remember one another, refuse silence. All the things that we must do now too. 'I'm here for hope,' declares one of the main characters, early on. And for the hope is exactly why you should read this compelling, lyrical novel." -- Tessa McWatt, prize-winning author of The Snag: A Mother, A Forest and Wild Grief
Marketing Plan
- Outreach to reviewers, media, podcasters, booksellers, literary organizations, and social media
- Readings, interviews, festival appearances, and community events
- Positioning the novel within literary fiction, climate fiction, and solarpunk readerships through targeted audience outreach
- Digital and print advance review copy distribution
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781998466054 |
| PRICE | CA$25.99 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 416 |