Done with Doomers
Perhaps I suffer from an undiagnosed case of an undesignated condition of climate anxiety. In Kill Well, the first book in my climate fiction series The Steep Climes Quartet, such…
Author: David Guenette
The Fossil Fuel Industry is Our Enemy
There are many hundreds of thousands of Americans who make their living in work related to fossil fuels, and I’m not thinking of any of these as enemies. Heck, one…
Investing or Resting? The Inflation Reduction Act is Going Slow, at Least at the State Level
In my climate activist work, I’ve been trying to help others in my region learn about the potential direct and personal benefits the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act may hold for…
Climate Fiction Quicky: Weather, by Jenny Offill, is Terrific
Climate fiction, at least as a category, is getting to be a busy literary space, although you can find those who dismiss any genre writing as belonging anywhere near the…
Climate Change Fiction: An Academic Perspective
I’m writing a multi-part series of posts on climate fiction, and usually these posts briefly discuss such titles. Here’s a step back to provide a wider context, stealing heavily from…
Murder, Oil, and Blood Money: Is the climate fiction plot line of fossil fuel interests murdering someone far-fetched?
Kill Well has a plot with people embarked on nefarious deeds with the objective of protecting a big oil pipeline project and there is a murder, and a contract killer,…
Kill Well is Now Available at Oblong Books
My recently published novel, Kill Well (Book One, The Steep Climes Quartet) is now at Oblong Books-Millerton and Oblong Books – Rhinebeck. The march toward worldwide bookstore domination by Kill…
Here’s a Good Bet: Our Climate Future Will Fall Somewhere Between Excessive Optimism and Unseemly Doom
“Incredibly, we’re on track to 0.5C above pre-industrial by around 2050,” published in Medium on August 27, by Paul Pallaghy, is the sort of headline I would like to see…
Fossil Fuels in Hot Water
Well, one can hope that at a minimum, when I say hot water, I’m talking about legal liabilities the fossil fuel industry may face for being, well, lying sons of…
The Fictional Timelines of The Steep Climes Quartet and Why My Palms Sweat
As I’ve mentioned in another post, I’m finding it a challenge in my climate fiction work to keep pace with climate change, and my work on Dear Josephine, the second…