And there are authors have approached the crisis through unexpected lenses. Nnedi Okorafor’s short story Spider the Artist imagines a future Nigeria where marine life is dying, but she brings in spider beasts from African legends as guards for a water source. Dominican novelist Rita Indiana binds the climate emergency to gender, race and colonialism in the Caribbean in her work Tentacle. In Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, evolution is reversing. Babies are born as primitive species, and the government is rounding up pregnant women … [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
