In a subterranean laboratory on Monpetit Island a hologram of the earth floats above a silver platform, the ice cap of the North Pole almost touching the ceiling above. On a beach just a few steps from the laboratory, Anna Atom is about to go for her usual afternoon swim. Life on an Indian Ocean island is idyllic: it is always beach weather! But Anna’s mom spends most of her days in the laboratory, monitoring the environmental conditions of the earth and communicating them to her employer,...
