Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins
Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins
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Altar to an Erupting Sun

Author: Chuck Collins, Jason Brown

Narrator: Corinna May

Unabridged: 11 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2023

Synopsis

Rae Kelliher is an organizer of rituals and dance parties, a veteran environmental activist, and pioneer in the " death with dignity" movement. Her husband Reggie calls her a " instant party in a box." In 2023, facing down a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his role in delaying responses to climate disruption. Seven years later, Rae' s friends and family gather at their Vermont farm to make sense of her violent exit. They reflect on the negative political blowback, but also the ways that Rae' s action unleashed a transition movement that is reshaping the face of New England. Altar to an Erupting Sun  is  a near future story that addresses how we respond to climate disruption in  the " critical decade" that we are living in. This is the  debut novel of researcher and writer Chuck Collins whose previous books include  Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hoarders, Wealth and Our Commonwealth,  Economic Apartheid in America, and  Robin Hood Was Right.  Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits  Inequality.org.

About Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and coedits Inequality.org. His previous books include Born on Third Base and Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ruah on November 20, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Penn on May 21, 2025

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

Goodreads review by David on January 21, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Sarah on November 11, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Mary on September 10, 2023

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

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