Parts Per Million - Violence Is an Option

  • Winner of the SERAPH 2025 for Best Book
  • For readers of Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow or Andreas Brandhorst
  • Well-researched and exciting: climate fiction at its best 
  • Theresa Hannig's novel Pantopia also won the SERAPH for Best Book 2023, rights sold to China (Zhejiang Literature) and Hungary (Metropolis Media), film rights sold

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The battle for the future has only just begun


Topical, critical and extremely exciting. A climate fiction thriller about the future of climate activism. Author Johanna Stromann wants to write a novel about climate activists. But the research proves to be dangerous, as the state tries to suppress the protests with violence. Soon it is no longer possible for Johanna to remain neutral on the sidelines and simply document the events. On the contrary: it doesn't go far enough for her. When the majority of climate groups are banned and their members sentenced to prison, she and the remaining activists found the group ‘Parts Per Million’ to bring the perpetrators of the climate catastrophe to justice. By any means necessary.


‘The most intense book I've read in a long time. Anyone who doesn't think about climate change afterwards is probably dead.’ -- Andreas Eschbach

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Tor
  • Release: 25.09.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-70891-8
  • 368 Pages
  • Author: Theresa Hannig
Parts Per Million - Violence Is an Option
Theresa Hannig Parts Per Million - Violence Is an Option
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Theresa Hannig

Theresa Hannig, 1984 geboren, studierte Politikwissenschaft und arbeitete als Softwareentwicklerin, Projektmanagerin und Lichtdesignerin, bevor sie sich hauptberuflich dem Schreiben zuwandte. Seitdem wurde sie mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Seraph für ihren Roman »Pantopia«. 2023 erhielt sie den Tassilo-Kulturpreis der Süddeutschen Zeitung. In ihren Romanen, Kurzgeschichten und der taz-Kolumne „Über Morgen“ schreibt sie über Zukunftsthemen wie KI, Datenschutz, Klimawandel und die Zukunft der Arbeit. Hannig lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Kindern in Fürstenfeldbruck.