Good afternoon and welcome back to the BookWormHole. I'm very proud to announce that today I have a guest post from a wonderful author whose books I just adore, Lauren James! Lauren James writes some pretty incredible sci-fi, with The Loneliest Girl in the Universe and The Quiet at the End of the World being two of my absolute favourites. They're thoughtful, intelligent, well researched and often quite emotional.  Lauren's new book is The Green Rising, a novel set in a near-future world on the bring of ecological collapse, and it looks set to be another brilliant YA sci-fi novel. Climate change is something that should concern us all, and certainly concerns me! One very important way to raise awareness of it is through fiction, and speculative science fiction has always been a fertile ground for raising awareness and even playing around with potential solutions. So I'm thrilled that Lauren has written something for my blog today talking about some of her favourite posit