Altar to an Erupting Sun

If you are my age, 76, and grew up in the US, this is a re-living of the 60's through today. We follow a young woman's radicalization through her long life, through to her death. She dove into non-violent direct action over concerns about nuclear weapons and power, desctruction of nature, and much m......more

2023. Bought for $8 on 11/24/24 because no ebook available at CLP, to read for Third Act DMV Book Club on 1/23/25. [URL not allowed] Chuck Collins (born October 19, 1959) is an American author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he......more

Altar to an Erupting Sun, by Chuck Collins, is an interesting book, although at different points it felt slow. As the book drew to a close, though, I realized my sometimes ambivalent reception of the book had been replaced by a solid appreciation for the subject and how that subject had been present......more

I picked this up expecting cli-fi and speculative fiction. There is indeed some of that, but the majority of the book takes place in the past, not the future, and largely wrestles with the question of nonviolence vs tactical violence. It reads a bit like if Kim Stanley Robinson (one of the authors p......more

For anyone that found community through activism, especially environmental activism in their early 20s, Chuck’s novel is a welcomed journey of nostalgia that spans beyond the Northeast, where much of the story takes place. Rae’s story resonates deeply with coming of age in the era of climate impact.......more