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No. 31 – Climate Fictions (2019-2020)

Edited by Alison Sperling

“No review can do justice to every contribution to this fascinating and stimulating volume. It introduces the reader to specialist texts and insights that one would not otherwise encounter, while providing comprehensive critical essays on a range of SF texts that fall within the broad scope of Cli-Fi or Climate Fiction. It is a useful reference tool for researchers in the field and should be in any academic library collection.” – Bruce Lindsley Rockwood, Emeritus Professor of Legal Studies at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania. (See the full review in SFRA 54.1, see page 252)

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Climate Fictions, pp 7–22
    Alison Sperling
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  • Part 1: Simulation
    Dialogues
  • Tomorrow You Are A Cactus, pp 23-30
    Simon(e) van Saarloos and Paula Chaves Bonilla
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  • Balance is Possible, pp 31-36
    Stina Attebery and Elizabeth LaPensée
  • The Future was Yesterday, pp 37-46
    Dehlia Hannah and Charles Stankievech
  • Sun and Sea (Marina): Performing Climate Change, pp 47-54
    Alison Sperling and Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė and
    Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
  • Essays
  • Modelling Realism: Digital Media, Climate Simulations and Climate Fictions, pp 55-76
    Bogna Konior
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  • Climate Change on Cardboard: Ecological Eurogames, pp 77-104
    Péter Kristôf Makai
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  • Video Games as Interventions in the Climate Disaster, pp 105-122
    Cameron Kunzelman
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  • Nodding Off from the Anthropocene: Picnolepsy and Rehearsing Disappearance in Space Exotica, pp 123-144
    Andrew Wenaus
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  • The Legend of Zelda in the Anthropocene, pp 145-170
    Gerry Canavan
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  • Part 2: Story
    Dialogues
  • Stories of Where We Come From, pp 171-176
    Viola Lasmana and Khairani Barokka
  • Last Aboriginal Person Standing in a Climate-Changed Australia: A Conversation with Alexis Wright, pp 177-184
    Stef Craps and Alexis Wright
  • The Malign Flipside of Fluke, pp 185-190
    Jim Clarke and Adam Roberts
  • Dear Environment, pp 191-196
    Amelia Groom and Anna Zett
  • Documenting Fictions, pp 197-204
    Callum Copley and Federico Barni
  • Essays
  • Stories We Tell About the End of the World: (Post) Apocalyptic Climate Fiction Working Towards Climate Justice, pp 205-230
    Julia D. Gibson
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  • Tracking Climate Change from Ancient Times:Ancient Mesopotamia and Atra-hasis, pp 231-248
    Z. Gizem Yilmaz Karahan
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  • A Submergent Imaginary: The Radical Ecology of J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, pp 249-270
    Allan Rae
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  • Sinking and Floating on a Shoreless Sea: Co-Reading “The Fool and His Inheritance”, pp 271-292
    Catriona Mills, Rebecca Olive, and Nina Clark
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  • “Something to do with Black Water”: Climate, Complicity and Cosmic Horror in John Langan’s The Fisherman, pp 293-310
    Gordon Sullivan
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  • Part 3: Speculation
    Dialogues
  • Ruins and Erosion: Reflections on the CasaDuna project, pp 311-320
    Marlon Miguel and CasaDuna
  • Through the Portal, pp 321-328
    Isabel de Sena and Janet Laurence
  • Architectures of Seed Banking, pp 329-338
    Romy Kießling with Marleen Boschen and Charles Pryor
  • There Are No Givens, pp 339-346
    Daniela Molnar and Walidah Imarisha
  • Uncertain Harvest, pp 347-358
    Michelle Ty and Shu Lea Cheang
  • Essays
  • The Four Tourists of the Apocalypse: Figures of the Anthropocene in Caribbean Climate Fiction, pp 359-378
    Suzanne F. Boswell
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  • Crises of Water and New Maps to Utopia, pp 379-402
    Alexander Popov and Konstantin Georgiev
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  • “Everything Change”: Ecocritical Dystopianism and Climate Fiction, pp 403-424
    Conrad Scott
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  • Unequal Survival: Climate Fiction, Paranoid Anthropocentrism, and the Politics of Existential Risk, pp 425-444
    Tyler Austin Harper
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  • Economies of Scale: Environmental Plastics, SF, and Graphic Narratives, pp 445-462
    Glyn Morgan
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