Climate Fiction
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THE MOONDAY LETTERS by Emmi Itäranta (BOOK REVIEW)
“We carry within us every home, including those that no longer exist, so we’d have somewhere to return to.” “Pests have hitched rides with humans to ... -
THE CARBON DIARIES 2015 by Saci Lloyd – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
As some of you may know I am currently undertaking a creative writing PhD with the catchy title Navigating the mystery of future geographies in climate ... -
DENIAL by Jon Raymond, reviewed by T.O.Munro
The phrase climate fiction and its abbreviation cli-fi was coined by journalist Dan Bloom[i] in a 2011 Press release for a novel Polar City Red (2012). Since ... -
THE DENIAL by Ross Clark THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
So I return to my neglected Unseen Academic feature, with what is (honestly) going to be a book review, honestly, but first some climate change context. ... -
MOTHERBRIDGE: SEEDS OF CHANGE by George Mann and Aleta Vidal (BOOK REVIEW)
“My dad used to say that the world always finds a way to pull the rug from under your feet, just when you least expect it.” ... -
OVAL by Elvia Wilk (BOOK REVIEW)
“If there was no secret, there was no reason not to scroll through the messages. They looked at each other’s screens all the time. That was ... -
THE PEOPLE OF SAND AND SLAG by Paolo Bacigalupi (BOOK REVIEW)
“They’d call us Gods” Paolo Bacigalupi’s short story collection ‘Pump Six and Other Stories,’ including ‘The People of The Sand and Slag,’ was a 2008 Locus ... -
THE DOLORIAD by Missouri Williams (BOOK REVIEW)
“…and looking into her bruised face the schoolmaster thought to himself that the history of the world was the history of cruelty, that it had never ... -
DON’T LOOK UP directed by Adam McKay – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
As some of you may know I am currently undertaking a creative writing PhD with the catchy title Navigating the mystery of future geographies in climate ... -
THE ACTUAL STAR by Monica Byrne (BOOK REVIEW)
“The drink, the drums, the dance: as ever, these were the engines of the alteration of ordinary time. Xibalba felt so close, the liminal, the numinous, ...
