BOOK REVIEW – BACK TO THE GARDEN, by Clara Hume, published by Moon Willow Press (2013) Available on Amazon, click here BREAKING NEWS: On the forum SFFWorld, there’s an on-going debate on climate fiction where Clara Hume intervenes as Guest Host, using her real name, Mary Woodbury, along with two more Guest Hosts, Brian Burt, author of…
Tag: Climate Change
Climate Change and the Collapse of Western Civilization
To anyone living in Europe, it is truly puzzling that Americans continue to deny Climate Change. The anger, recklessness and vehemence displayed by American “climate deniers” are something of a mystery. And their favorite argument is that there is no scientific “evidence” of global warming – in spite of the rising number of “extreme” weather…
Our Future on Earth: Fab or Scary?
This week, our future is the talk of the town, from Tokyo to Lima.The message from the Japanese designers show, “The Fab Mind”, is positive, it’s a fab future: “fixing stuff, repairing the world” as Alice Rawsthorn, a British design critic wrote in the New York Times (see her article here). Repairing? Not quite, Takram,…
CLI-FI – A DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR CLAUDE NOUGAT
If this is a good interview, you should thank best-selling author Bob Rector, he had really good questions! CLI-FI – A DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR CLAUDE NOUGAT. Some of the books discussed: – New York under water: Monarch butterflies invade a small corner of the Appalachian mountains causing a scary “flight behavior”: Climate fiction also includes…
Why Climate Fiction is Here to Stay
Climate fiction has gone viral for a very simple reason: it deals with climate change and global warming, issues that are getting worse every year. We’ve been used to dire reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for years but now we are getting one, equally somber report from the United States,…
Book Cover for a Cli Fi Novel: Which is Best?
Cli Fi, or Climate Fiction, is rapidly becoming a widely accepted term to designate a new genre of books dealing with Climate Change but not only: many elements taken together – like the demographic explosion, growing income inequality, urbanization and the rapid industrialization of the Third World – contribute to threaten our survival on Earth….
Interview with the Father of Cli Fi: How this New Genre Was Born is Revealed
American climate activist Dan Bloom visiting a local university in Taiwan to do some research on climate change issues My blog post about Climate Fiction, a “hot new genre” (here) led me to “virtually” meet Dan Bloom, the journalist and “green” activist who coined the term “Cli Fi”. I was very happy to meet him,…
Why Climate Change is Only a Side Show: the Sixth Extinction is Upon Us!
In the United States, Climate Change is viewed with suspicion: many Americans don’t believe in it, at best they’ll agree that climate warming may have natural causes but they strongly refute the idea that it could be due to human action. And in any case, they reject any causal linkage with extinction of life on…
Claude Forthomme 