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For your reading pleasure, there’s an article I put together on climate fiction.

There’s a couple of lists there too with books you might enjoy if you like giving yourself anxiety.

Joking. Not. Thing is, good sci-fi (under which climate fiction falls) has never been about the future nor about the sci.

It’s always been a criticism of what’s going on right now. When it’s really good, it’s about what’s always been going on. The article goes into that. Why on Mother Earth would anyone bother reading about destruction, especially since it’s already happening in the real world?

I view climate change very much as a tragedy. Knowing what will happen if we continue with our course of action but being incapable of changing who we are.It’s interesting considering where climate fiction fits into the general canon of post-apocalypse and all the books I grew up obsessing about.

So, check out the article and the lists and let me know if any of these books strike an anxious chord with you.

https://www.inspired-quill.com/blog/guides-resources/should-climate-fiction-be-scary/

https://www.inspired-quill.com/blog/guides-resources/5-near-future-climate-fiction-must-reads/

https://www.inspired-quill.com/blog/guides-resources/5-climate-fiction-must-reads/

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Halfway through writing a new novel and I figured this would be a good time to post about it.

I’ve been working on a speculative fiction story with strong sci-fi elements for about a year now. As with everything I write, this is close to my heart. Yes, there is cli-fi elements in there, because this is what keeps me up at night, but there’s so much more.

There is a certain frustration that comes from reading and writing straight-forward narratives and I’ve always had a thing for experimenting with form. Recently, I reached out to a couple of professors of English to have a discussion on representing time on page and how to manipulate it.

Exciting times.

I will be posting bits and pieces of the novel here as tasters. If this wasn’t obvious, I’m really excited to play with form and structure and I hope you join me for the ride.