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…
Category: Other Writing
When it comes to writing I have wide interests. I hope that is not simply another way of declaring that I’m shallow and pretentious. The beauty about writing is that the writer can say whatever he or she (or xe, for the gender non-affixed) wants to about his or her (or xer) own work, but it is the reader that has the real say.
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…
Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Clean Energy Permitting Reform, YIMBY, and NIMBY
Big and little construction jobs need various permits, and if you have ever renovated your house, you know the process can be difficult and confusing, never mind time-consuming. Sometimes neighbors…
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…
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…
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…
Essay: Horsewhip Jeff Bezos, Part One
[NOTE: This essay was originally published in March of 2021, so some of the facts cited have changed since. Also, in retrospect, my critique of Amazon’s poor metadata application and…
To Try Essays
The title above is just the sort of word play I’ve long been warned against—or at least I should have been warned against—but if I can’t have fun playing with…