Energy and Environmental Novels
the Books of Mel Eisenstadt

Navajo Afterglow (2000)

A government conspiracy and a scalping

Johnny Narbona and Sam Tsosie are two Navajo Indian uranium miners who are among the many that contracted lung cancer. Suspecting that something was wrong in the mines, they contact an attorney at Navajo Legal Services. The subsequent investigation reveals a government conspiracy, which includes refusal to make the mines a safer place to work and conducting tests on the miners to determine how much radiation they can stand. The novel is set between 1950 and 1970 in New Mexico, and is partly based on fact. It includes an investigation that breaks through the "classified information" barrier, a romance, a scalping, a trial, and a fair amount of Navajo lore.

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Praise for Navajo Afterglow:

"In his debut as a novelist, Mel Eisenstadt displays a way with words and talent as a storyteller. In Navajo Afterglow, he uses his skill and a deep knowledge of the subject to expose our governments ill treatment of Navajo uranium miners."

Tony Hillerman, author 

"Mel Eisenstadt's Navajo Afterglow is an impassioned, imaginative and humane tale that dramatizes an all-too-real dark time in America's recent past."

Jake Page, author of Stolen Gods
 

Noah's Millennium (2005)

To flood or not to flood...

In the year 2050, the Greenhouse Effect is still pushing the world toward disaster, when three unusual men - a billionaire, a solar engineer turned lawyer, and a computer whiz meteorologist - decide to fight it. Solar power satellites are their solution, but twenty years are needed to purge the atmosphere of excess greenhouse gases. Can these men overcome warped politics and defeat global warming, or is the world destined for a replay of the Noah disaster?

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Praise for Noah's Millennium:

"Mel Eisenstadt has written a glowing novel about an important subject, global warming. Learning about global warming from this thriller is like learning history from a James Michener best seller."

Bill Richardson, Governor, State of New Mexico
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
 

The Dynamite Campaign (2006)

A Congressional campaign is heated up by unusual events.

Water is poisoned by polluters, killing a young man. That death results in a building being blown up, which leads to a court trial that involved one of the candidates. To further exacerbate things, there is evidence that uranium is being smuggled from Iran, though postwar Iraq, to Libya, our supposed friend. This information comes from Los Alamos National Lab, which is part of the New Mexico Congressional district being contested, and it has a decided effect on the election. Finally, one of the candidates is assassinated. Despite the mayhem, the candidates hang in and one is elected. Is this campaign indicative of future elections, or can the system effectively resolve these problems?

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The Great Colorado River War (2008)

It was a green dream...

Replace dirty coal, oil, and gasoline with clean burning hydrogen. Hank Narbona, the only Navajo Indian graduate from Cal Tech in the year 2020, led the charge. Hank knew that he needed massive quantities of water in an area flooded with sunshine. In his plan, solar-generated electricity would break the water of Lake Powell down into its chemical components, and turn the water into an ocean of hydrogen to fuel the entire country.

Unfortunately for Hank, many factions value this water, including the Yacuza and the Russian mob. The green dream turns into a twenty-first century water war, complete with amphibious landings.

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Praise for The Great Colorado River Water War:

"The Great Colorado River Water War shines brightly as a novel about a Big Idea, big water, big money, and big trouble. With insight and mastery of his subject, Mel Eisenstadt weaves a quicksilver-paced story of the near future with all the colors, details and drama of a classic Navajo rug."

E. Jack Kaplan
Screenwriter of My Fellow Americans
TV writer/producer of Simon & Simon, Hill Street Blues, and Designing Women