S3E38: Where are the campy cli-fi series? Why do we only have literary climate fiction?!—w/ Daniel Backer, author
Reversing Climate Change
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How to Write Climate Genre Fiction
I feel like if you were going to write genre fiction of climate and you would presuppose that the world is going through hard times, you would want to write it in such a way as that. It doesn't have to be nearly so dramatic because not all things related to climate change severity will be nearly so extreme. I think how you would maybe create more of a genre of tail is to make it more of a personal experience for that protagonist. For your average person in the suburbs in the Midwest, even if they believe in climate change, it's not a very in-your-face problem for them. Evoking those particularities might pose a challenge unless you go straight apocalypse for that
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