Climate Fiction, Part Two
There are a lot of types of climate fiction. I’ve followed this genre (or sub-genre, or sub-sub-genre) from well before there was a name for it. I suppose anyone who’s…
Author: David Guenette
Kill Well, Book One of The Steep Climes Quartet, is out in ePub via Draft2Digital Next Week
I’m a bit bleary-eyed, but my efforts to get an ePub version of Kill Well has succeeded, and that success is mainly due (besides my being a stubborn son of…
Covering the Climate Crisis Like War, with Oil in the Crosshairs
I was reading an article in Heated, published on July 11, 2023, with the provocative title “Oil Companies Are Laughing While the World Burns.” Arielle Samuelson and Emily Atkin are…
Why, Oh Why? The Doomer Dance and Other Annoyances
Many titles on the lists I get from Medium grab attention, and some grab better than others. Unfortunately, the doomer-inflected article titles seem better suited as flags for my attention,…
Can Climate Fiction Help with Climate Change?
The question in the title above seems like a good one for me to ask, considering that I write climate fiction. I also do other things, including living as best…
We Love Cheap Gas
Yes, the headline here qualifies as a truism, which means that the claim is so obvious as to not be questioned. Even climate change activists—at least most of us—like cheap…
Coal In Your Stocking
In my ongoing survey of who is writing what about climate change, I find myself stopped by what might be called “clickbait” titles, including a doozy from Will Lockett, who…
Climate Fiction, Part One
Yes, Part One because climate fiction interests me, not surprising given that I’m writing The Steep Climes Quartet, with Kill Well, Book One, coming out this September. I hope to…
The High Cost of Extreme Summer Heat
At present, heatwaves are the topic du jour, and exactly because the heatwaves continue from day to day, and now week to week, and across a third of America’s population,…
Goddam the Bogeyman
This morning, as I’m sipping my first (of many) cups of coffee, I came across two articles from writers using Medium as a publishing platform, and the two are especially…