“WhiteGrass succeeds where most climate fiction fails: it understands the science, the timelines, and the political inertia driving collapse. The nanotechnology at the heart of the story is speculative—but disturbingly feasible—and the consequences feel frighteningly real. This is not exaggeration or alarmism. It is forecasting. Richard Smith has written a novel that should be required reading for anyone who believes climate change is a distant problem..”