From 375386b63166e31a543c1b3b3c1ef7a799def4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 17:43:46 +0100 Subject: log: trexler 2015, the novel in a time of climate change --- log.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'log.md') diff --git a/log.md b/log.md index a8d932b..71ad3fb 100644 --- a/log.md +++ b/log.md @@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ author: Joe Carstairs ## 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 -- cgit v1.2.3