stories let us rehearse the ideas we struggle to live
We may have the data, but sometimes it takes a story to help push it along.
Set in the glass towers of Canary Wharf Raising Aquarius is a corporate thriller of power, loyalty and the rebellion of choosing to care.
While the story was inspired by the controversial subject of sea bed mining, author Nathalie Sivers quickly discovered it was more a story about duty, identity and decision making than science, spreadsheets and status quo.
Lena, Helena, and Elinor did not prove her mistaken.
Lena Sanderson
Mining is mining. The ocean is the current frontier. We will mine the moon when we get there.
Helena Saladin
Knowledge isn’t power. Often times it is just more opinion.
Elinor Applebaum
When we see taking as our right, we forget it comes with a cost we don’t live with.
I didn’t set out to tell a woe is us about mining nor the hubris of mining the sea.
I set out to tell something about how we cope in changing times.
Nathalie Sivers
Raising Aquarius
Novel.
370 pages.
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