In '2084,' authors fictionalize global threats as a real-world warning (Stavridis '76)

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman about their new book, 2084, which examines a future where climate change has ravaged the planet.

Jim Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman are both veterans. Ackerman is a Marine, five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Stavridis is a retired four-star admiral, also a former supreme allied commander of NATO. So it might not surprise you that when these two set out a few years ago to write fiction together, they wrote about war. Their first novel was titled "2034" because it was set in the year 2034. It imagined a war between the U.S. and China. When they came to the phone to talk with us about it, Admiral Stavridis told me the book was meant to strike a warning bell.

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