The Rise of the Climate Change Novel
What happens when our changing world starts to look more and more unreal? The recent boom in novels that depict climate change pits the real against the magical, surreal, and fantastical.
Tagged: Fiction
Review: Adam Trexler’s Anthropocene Fictions
A new book surveys 150 novels about climate change and makes the case for the virtues of cli-fi.
Edgy Stuff: October 2015 Recommendations
October 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Our Climatic Fate? Oreskes and Conway’s “Collapse of Western Civilization”
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s tale of our catastrophic future is a provocative hybrid of scholarship and science fiction that’s great for the classroom.
Whatever. . . Never Mind, or Old Torvald Skaalen Died on Saturday
A story at the intersection of truth, lies, memory, and imagination set in the Norwegian-American cultural landscape of Stoughton, Wisconsin.
Edgy Stuff: October 2014 Recommendations
October recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
