As part of our focus on questions of energy, climate and the environment, we are developing some resources on Climate Fiction.
Here is our reading list:
Ursula LeGuin, The Word for World is Forest
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife
Resources and critical perspectives
“Climate Fiction: Can Books Save the Planet?”, by J.K. Ullrich
A new literary genre that focuses on the consequences of environmental issues is striking a chord with younger generations—and engaging them in thinking about the Earth’s sustainability.
Read the article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/climate-fiction-margaret-atwood-literature/400112/
Global Warning
Unlike most science fiction, novels about climate change focus on an immediate and intense threat rather than discovery
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/31/global-warning-rise-cli-fi
Cli-fi: Birth of a Genre, by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
What is the “imaginative repertoire” of climate fiction?
Cli-Fi–That’s Climate Fiction–Is the New Sci-Fi, by Shara Tonn
Popularized by writers like Paolo Bacigalupi and Margaret Atwood, cli-fi takes climate predictions to their logical conclusions and explores how people might survive in a completely messed up world.