Recommended books:
STILLICIDE By Cynan Jones (New York Times) – “In “Stillicide,” the through-line is an iceberg headed for London. The novel opens many years after Britain has entered an extended drought, and enough time has passed for one phase of responses to yield to the next. After becoming a target for terrorists, a pipeline to the city has been replaced by a train that carries millions of gallons of water from a distant reservoir, equipped with automatic guns to mow down any moving object near the tracks.”
THE NEW WILDERNESS By Diane Cook (The Guardian) – “Above all, she seems to ask: how will we regard one another once the climate crisis finally becomes the uncontested crucible of our time?”
A CHILDREN’S BIBLE By Lydia Millet (Grist) – “There was just this sort of righteous rage about climate and extinction and other matters of monolithic stature that I hadn’t really observed in my own generation at their age, or even now. People of my general age bracket, we just had this kind of complacency to us. For as long as I can remember, we’ve been willfully turning away from anything that seems overly dramatic, overly earnest, overly serious. I wanted to write about the way that might play out in this particular scenario, where I populate a summer house with this group of families.”
EJECTED By Dawn Pape (Female First) – “Non-fiction books detailing the horrors of climate change abound. But the solutions in these books are often brief, superficial, and too often presented in a textbook-like, unengaging manner. My goal was to create a story with relatable characters who naturally weave complex social and political aspects of climate change together.”
News:
Climate Fiction Festival (Literaturhaus Berlin) – 4th – 6th Dec 2020, online – see their “Why cli fi?” article
Climate fiction shifts readers’ beliefs
Climate fiction competition results
Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest announces winners, forthcoming anthology
With the world on fire, climate fiction no longer looks like fantasy
Ten Eco-Fiction Novels Worth Discussing – “Eco-fiction is a cross-genre phenomenon, and we are all awakening—novelists and readers of novels—to our changing environment. We are finally ready to see and portray environment as an interesting character with agency.”
8 best climate emergency books to help you better understand the crisis
Climate Fiction Writers League 