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From: Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 17:43:46 +0100
Subject: log: trexler 2015, the novel in a time of climate change

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+@book{novel-climate-change,
+    author={Trexler, Adam},
+    address={Charlottesville},
+    isbn={9780813936932},
+    publisher={University of Virginia Press},
+    series={Under the Sign of Nature},
+    title={Anthropocene Fictions},
+    subtitle={The Novel in a Time of Climate Change},
+    year={2015},
+}
+
 @inbook{denial-deception,
 	author={Bush, Martin J.},
 	title={Denial and Deception},
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 ## 2026-07-06
 
+### @{novel-climate-change}
+
+A broad discussion of climate change in recent novels. I was looking for
+discussion of the place (or non-place) of utopia in modern environmental
+fiction. The best I could find was some discussion in the Conclusion, p232 and
+following, where he argues that whereas 1970-1995ish climate change wasan
+unrealistic, imaginative, future possibility, 'science fiction' material,
+nowadays, the perception that climate change is now and real makes that kind of
+speculative fiction impossible, and climate realism is the order of the day.
+
 ### @{green-utopias}
 
 In chapter 6, Garforth studies McKibben's 2003 _The End of Nature_, in which he
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