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He is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies..
His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Salon, and others.
Can Aurora assemble a team to reverse the splintering of the international community and avert an even more dystopian future? About author(s): John Feffer is a playwright and the author of several books including Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe \'s Broken Dreams and the novels Splinterlands, and Frostlands .
Songlands , the stand-alone finale to the Splinterlands trilogy, describes humanity \'s last shot at solving the world \'s problems.
Unlocking those mysteries will take Aurora on a virtual journey around the fragmented globe and up against the world \'s most powerful corporation.
Her salvation, and that of the planet as well, lies in the mysteries locked inside the head of this enigmatic woman who has appeared on her doorstep.
Suddenly the obscure professor has a target on her back and the fate of the world in her hands.
And she \'s angry at how small her life has become.
Then one day a strange woman walks into Aurora \'s life and, in an instant, the world \'s chaos gets personal.
She \'s relatively comfortable, but not particularly happy.
She devotes her spare time to writing poetry.
At home, it \'s her children.
At university, she focuses on her students.
Aurora, a middle-aged sociologist, tries not to think about how the world has turned so chaotic and dangerous.
Waves of pandemics have closed borders with such regularity that travelhas become mostly virtual.
Multinational corporations, with their own security forces, have replaced global institutions as the only real power-brokers.
Nationalist paramilitaries battle against religious extremists.
The climate change meltdown has triggered an endless cycle of natural disasters.
The world is a mess. 2052
