Over Brooklyn Hills is Now Available
On Monday, June 15 (2026), the third book of The Steep Climes Quartet, Over Brooklyn Hills, publishes from CMTI Publishing. The Steep Climes Quartet is a literary climate fiction series.…
Author: David Guenette
Climate Fiction Featuring Far Futures, Dystopia, Fantasies, and Other Simplified Worlds, is Simply Much Easier to Write
In Elena Vasileva’s Substack, Care-Full Futures, there’s a May 25, 2026, entry titled “The Colonisation of Imagination,” with the subtitle “How to engage with stories that expand rather than narrow perception…
Let’s Do Anti-AI Backlash Right
Let’s keep hysteria down and our eyes open, because knowing the players and what they want helps us fight for what we want. The subtitle to Ted Gioia’s recent post,…
A Fantastic Essay about Climate Fiction but Still a Lot of Fantasy
Why is being straight about the climate-changing world we live in so hard? Austin and Clare Aslan, the authors of the post “Climate Fiction Writing as the ‘Slow Blade that…
The World of Amazon Publishing and the Hoops a Publisher Jumps Through to Participate in the World of Amazon Publishing
I’m back to dealing with getting The Steep Climes Quartet out into the world with the upcoming publication date of June 15, for Over Brooklyn Hills, the third book of…
Clean Tech/Fossil-Free Funds Can Make A Difference
Is it time for fortunate and clean-energy-leaning retirees to put their money where their mouth is? There are many Americans who are retired or approaching retirement who have been fortunate…
Climate Fiction and Myth in Climate Fiction
Why are so many novels about climate change pursuing myth and fantasy instead of actual solutions? I am a student of climate fiction, and not surprisingly so, since I write…
The Challenge of Conveying Climate Change Information in Climate Fiction
I think this is the exact quote: “You have thirty mentions of externalities! Cut that by at least half!” I will keep the name of this beta-reader to myself, so…
Writing the Future of Climate Change
Once in a while it is good to look back at what you’ve been doing and reflect on how you got to that work. I’ve been working on the Steep…
How to Win the Electrotech Revolution
Victory is likely; victory fast enough to make a big difference is something else entirely. There’s a lot to do and we need a lot of people to do it.…