“In a world where politicians and others frequently peddle fictions, the fiction author can tell truths that people otherwise wouldn’t hear.”Then, a month after the essay, a climate change denier won the US presidential election. If you were low-key worried about the planet’s future before, you now had full-blown anxiety about it. Blockbuster disaster flicks just wouldn’t do. We weren’t “all gonna die!” We were going to live, watching the world inch towards apocalypse, at increasing risk of losing our homes, our communities, our minds, our identities, our histories and our humanity. … [Read more...] about Tomorrow is a new chapter: The rise of climate fiction
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Try some cli-fi with these novels about a changing planet
In Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver, a swarm of monarch butterflies appears, numbering in the millions, for no apparent reason, in a rural Tennessee town. Locals see it as a miracle. Businessmen want to make money off it. TV reporters sensationalise it. A scientist blames climate change. But for one woman, perhaps they just mean freedom? … [Read more...] about Try some cli-fi with these novels about a changing planet
