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…
Author: David Guenette
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…
Keeping Pace with Reality in Climate Fiction
One persistent challenge that I faced in writing Kill Well was keeping up with climate change realities. There were a number of times over the several years of manuscript work…
Why The Steep Climes Quartet? Showing People in Today’s Climate Crisis
I want to write climate fiction within which people can see themselves. What I don’t want to do with this series is to add to the already over-crowded pool of…
Hurricane Modeling? More, Please, Sir
Dr. Ryan Truchelut’s Weathertiger’s Hurricane Watch, on Substack, published “Atlantic’s Next Top Model: Hurricane Watch Weekly Column for July 11th,” and I found this column very interesting. This particular column…