[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submission/fiction

  • From: Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:41:13 -0700

This sounds like a very interesting and plausible situation.  I
grabbed it to review.

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:11:42AM -0400, Deborah Murray wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just submitted for proofing "Lives Less Valuable: A Novel" by Derrick
> Jensen.
> 
> It's been read through; errors corrected; section titles and page numbers
> present/protected; text formatted. 190 pages.
> I suggest removing the "adult" designation.
> 
> Description:
> At the heart of a city, a river is dying, children have cancer, and people
> are burning with despair.  From the safe distance that wealth buys, a
> corporation called Vexcorp counts these lives as another expense on a
> balance sheet.  But that distance is about to collapse.  Malia is an
> activist who has fiercely fought the everyday atrocities of environmental
> racism.  After years of watching countless children die, she's lost faith in
> the possibility of systemic reform.  Dennis is a lawyer who still believes
> that if enough people have the correct information they will do the right
> thing.  Dujuan is a young street thug torn by a chaos of grief and rage at
> his little sister's death.  And Larry Gordon is Vexcorp's CEO.  Derrick
> Jensen has written a novel as compelling as it is necessary: with our planet
> under serious threat, Malia's decisions face us all. 
> 
> Deborah
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