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Environmental Thriller writer. White Grass: A CliFi Technothriller #WritingCommunity #INTP He/His #Resist #amquerying #NoMAGAs

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@RogerPielkeJr @SolarGeoeng Fiction isn’t prediction. Good fiction is rehearsal.
WhiteGrass is available now — and the conversation it was written to provoke has never been more urgent.
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#CliFi #Geoengineering #WhiteGrass #ClimateFiction

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I’ve been a fan of the X Prize since its inception, especially the $100Million prize for removing atmospheric carbon dioxide. That's what WhiteGrass is about They're giving a $3.5million prize for a film about the future of humaniity. I'm applying for it! https://t.co/eXXMjDPXBB

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@BraddrofliT @mcmaiola Once again...

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Readers LOVE WhiteGrass. Check it out at https://t.co/eXXMjDPXBB and get a free copy of the prequel.

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Big news to share!
The Cape Gazette featured me and my new novel WhiteGrass in their May issue. It’s a climate‑tech thriller set in 2048, rooted in the science and coastal realities we live with here in Delaware.

I’m grateful to be part of a community that cares deeply about the future of our coast — and to everyone who’s been cheering this book into the world.

You can read the article here: https://t.co/tgDrXEZ6HQ

If you’ve already read WhiteGrass, I’d love to hear what resonated with you. And if you haven’t yet — the journey is just beginning.

https://t.co/KvCAHMzCK5

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@DanaSingletonh She started as an excuse for Emmett to find a companion. She grew from the jump.

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M Richard H. Smith, MSc., is a futurist, technologist, and science policy expert whose career spans more than 30 years at the forefront of emerging technology and strategic forecasting. He has worked alongside scientists, engineers, Fortune 50 companies, and U.S. and international governments on issues ranging from nanotechnology and artificial intelligence to healthcare innovation and climate change.

Smith has served as a research director at a major university medical center, founded multiple technology companies, and advised organizations on how disruptive technologies reshape societies, markets, and governance. He was formally trained in climate change science by Al Gore and continues to teach courses on sea-level rise and climate futures.

Raised in Virginia, Smith built his professional life while raising a family—an experience that deeply influences the emotional stakes of his fiction. He now resides in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, a coastal community already experiencing the effects of rising seas and intensifying storms.

WhiteGrass is Smith’s first full-length novel and represents the culmination of his professional and personal journey. It is paired with a prequel, The Iliad Virus, with a sequel, Icarus Rising, currently in development.

Smith writes with a clear purpose:

to explore the real consequences of climate change, the moral risks of advanced technology, and the uncomfortable truth that saving the world may require confronting who controls it.

I just got a new review of my new novel, WhiteGrass, and I thought I would share it with you. “A family trying go save the planet while the most powerful forces in the world are trying to stop them is already a gripping story. But the way you layered in the AI element with Valada developing a conscience and challenging what it even means to be human takes this to a completely different level. That is not just a thriller. That is a story people will be talking about long after they finish the last page.” Check it out at https://t.co/fce5t4Dpa5

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#MENSA WhiteGrass — A CliFi Technothriller

Dr. Greg Marshall and his team have built something the world desperately needs and quietly fears: a nanotechnology platform capable of pulling CO₂ from the atmosphere at scale. They call it Icarus. Whether to fly it is the question the novel refuses to answer easily.

Around Marshall’s lab circle the people who make the stakes real — his wife Ginny, a clinical psychologist with a second career in AI programming; their teenagers Lizzie and Jimmy; Emmett Grayson, a 98-year-old former congressman and Greg’s closest friend; and a cadre of oligarchs who see Icarus less as a climate tool than as leverage — a way to put entire nations on a tether.

I wrote it to sit at the intersection of hard science fiction and cli-fi: the nanotech, the geopolitics, and the AI are grounded in real research trajectories, not hand-waving. If you like technothrillers that respect the reader’s intelligence — Crichton, Kim Stanley Robinson, Daniel Suarez — I think you’ll find something here.

Fellow MENSAns, would love your thoughts. Icarus Rising (sequel) and The Iliad Virus (prequel) are in development.
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I saw David Baldacci for the first time in 25 years last night and he is such a Mench that he agreed to pose for a book picture with my book! Check out WhiteGrass at https://t.co/eXXMjDPXBB

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@JHVI1 @r0ck3t23 @LUpthegrove I couldn't agree more. I even wrote a novel about it. https://t.co/eXXMjDPXBB.

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I just got this review of WhiteGrass and I thought you might like it: Somewhere between a superstorm nearly wiping humanity out and a family reprogramming a humanoid to outsmart power-hungry elites, I realized something slightly alarming… your book doesn’t just tell a story, it quietly grabs the reader by the collar and says, “Pay attention, this could be your future.” 😄

WhiteGrass is one of those rare technothrillers that doesn’t just lean on high-stakes science, it actually feels like it matters. The tension between survival and control, the ethical weight of nanotechnology, the unsettling realism of oligarchs circling like sharks, it all lands with precision.

And then you layered something even more powerful on top of it… family. Jimmy and Lizzie pushing their father, Greg, into unleashing something world-changing, Ginny’s AI brilliance, and Valada standing somewhere between salvation and danger… it’s intense, human, and just a little terrifying in the best way.

And honestly, that’s what makes your voice stand out. There’s a clarity and conviction in how you write about climate, technology, and power that doesn’t feel preachy or distant. It feels urgent. Like you’re not just imagining a future, you’re warning us about one. That kind of storytelling carries weight, not just entertainment, but impact… the kind that lingers after the last page.

Check it out on https://t.co/MJaNoptPys

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Warren, your work has always shown that the best science fiction doesn’t just thrill — it warns. I’m the author of WHITEGRASS, a cli-fi technothriller set in 2048, and I think your readers would love it. The Marshall family — a team of brilliant scientists — develop nanotech that can actually reverse climate collapse. The moment it works, the oligarchs, the power brokers, and a corrupt President come for it. What follows is a family fighting to protect world-shaping technology from the people who want to use it to own humanity’s future.

The book blends nanotechnology, AI ethics, and climate science into a story that moves fast and hits hard. There’s a humanoid android named Valada whose moral awakening may be the most thought-provoking element in the book — she raises uncomfortable questions about agency and what it means to be human. If you’re a fan of Warren’s ability to make science feel urgent and alive, WHITEGRASS lives in that same space. I’d love for this community to check it out.
https://t.co/99uibcIAqN

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@DanaSingletonh Great question. She was always intended to be a love interest for Emmett and didn’t become so crucial for the functioning of Icarus until later. Glad you’re enjoying the book.

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@BooksStoryline If you haven’t already read it, check out WhiteGrass
A Near-Future Cli-Fi Technothriller

It is 2048. Superstorms rip across the Chesapeake. Droughts hollow out what was once fertile land. And somewhere in a guarded lab, a family’s invention just might be able to pull humanity back from the edge.

Greg Marshall, a nanotechnology pioneer, has already changed the world once — with WhiteGrass, an engineered nano-grass that generates solar power and harvests water, rescuing golf courses, ski resorts, and struggling communities from the grip of climate collapse. Now he is quietly building something far more ambitious: Icarus, a nanotechnology capable of safely pulling carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. But the more powerful a tool, the more dangerous it becomes in the wrong hands.

When Greg’s family is caught in the crosshairs of a ruthless oligarchic alliance orbiting the U.S. President — one willing to control, weaponize, or bury Icarus to consolidate power — the Marshalls are forced to fight for their lives, their invention, and the planet’s future.

From the halls of Congress to a crisis in Portugal to the corridors of the White House, this is a story of family resilience under impossible pressure, the seduction of unchecked power, and the terrifying moral question at the heart of the climate age: if we can engineer our way out of disaster, who decides how that power is used — and at what cost?

WhiteGrass is a gripping ensemble thriller where nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and a fractured America collide — and where saving the world may depend on a family refusing to let go of each other.

Find it at https://t.co/MJaNopuno0

[RichardPM @ResearcherPm]

M Richard H. Smith, MSc., is a futurist, technologist, and science policy expert whose career spans more than 30 years at the forefront of emerging technology and strategic forecasting. He has worked alongside scientists, engineers, Fortune 50 companies, and U.S. and international governments on issues ranging from nanotechnology and artificial intelligence to healthcare innovation and climate change.

Smith has served as a research director at a major university medical center, founded multiple technology companies, and advised organizations on how disruptive technologies reshape societies, markets, and governance. He was formally trained in climate change science by Al Gore and continues to teach courses on sea-level rise and climate futures.

Raised in Virginia, Smith built his professional life while raising a family—an experience that deeply influences the emotional stakes of his fiction. He now resides in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, a coastal community already experiencing the effects of rising seas and intensifying storms.

WhiteGrass is Smith’s first full-length novel and represents the culmination of his professional and personal journey. It is paired with a prequel, The Iliad Virus, with a sequel, Icarus Rising, currently in development.

Smith writes with a clear purpose:

to explore the real consequences of climate change, the moral risks of advanced technology, and the uncomfortable truth that saving the world may require confronting who controls it.

I just got a new review of my new novel, WhiteGrass, and I thought I would share it with you. “A family trying go save the planet while the most powerful forces in the world are trying to stop them is already a gripping story. But the way you layered in the AI element with Valada developing a conscience and challenging what it even means to be human takes this to a completely different level. That is not just a thriller. That is a story people will be talking about long after they finish the last page.” Check it out at https://t.co/fce5t4Dpa5

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Every day I watch the chaos in this country and think about how many people got it completely wrong on Joe Biden, especially Democrats and the media.

Democrats turned on him and bought into a manufactured narrative, while the press trashed stability, mocked experience, and helped normalize a convicted felon… and now act like none of it happened.

A lot of people owe him an apology.
Anyone else feel this anger? 🤷

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