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Everything Change #2
Everything Change, Volume II: An Anthology of Climate Fiction
A collection of short fiction about climate chaos and its aftermath, exploring a variety of possible futures for humans and the Earth, ranging across genres from science fiction and fantasy to literary fiction and prose poetry. Features a foreword from renowned science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, along with 10 stories from Arizona State University’s 2018 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest.
Download the book for free in a variety of digital formats at https://climateimagination.asu.edu/ev....
The contest and anthology are presented by the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University, which is a partnership of the Center for Science and the Imagination and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
Download the book for free in a variety of digital formats at https://climateimagination.asu.edu/ev....
The contest and anthology are presented by the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University, which is a partnership of the Center for Science and the Imagination and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
190 pages, ebook
First published January 29, 2019
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January 30, 2019
I may be a little biased... but I really liked these stories!
I’d like to talk about the deep water diving story specifically because AT FIRST, I didn’t like it, but then it grew on me so much it became my favorite. At the beginning, I found the tone to be childish, and the exposition to be so heavy at first I wanted to skip it (although I know clifi is hard to write without heavy setting). But as I kept reading, I realized that the tone fit the character perfectly, and was actually a clever way to inform the reader about how the character was interacting with her/his/their (does it ever specify?) surroundings. Also, I loved the allusion to Frank Lloyd Wright and the interesting ways to describe how someone would feel about seeing the sky after being underwater for their whole lives.
Lastly, I wanted to note a bit of analysis I’m not sure was intended by the author, but I loved. I think that the author used such a horrid action like drowning a family member to comment on how older generations are leaving younger generations—their own blood—a messy world with no solution to global warming in sight. Even though everyone in the generations that helped shape the world as we know it today probably loves someone in the generation that is growing up, either by blood or not, the majority of them are too ignorant, lazy, or do not have the resources to do anything about our current situation. The older generation may love the new generation, but ultimately, they are drowning us. Once I made that connection, I loved every word of the short story. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, and sorry for the little rant...
I’d like to talk about the deep water diving story specifically because AT FIRST, I didn’t like it, but then it grew on me so much it became my favorite. At the beginning, I found the tone to be childish, and the exposition to be so heavy at first I wanted to skip it (although I know clifi is hard to write without heavy setting). But as I kept reading, I realized that the tone fit the character perfectly, and was actually a clever way to inform the reader about how the character was interacting with her/his/their (does it ever specify?) surroundings. Also, I loved the allusion to Frank Lloyd Wright and the interesting ways to describe how someone would feel about seeing the sky after being underwater for their whole lives.
Lastly, I wanted to note a bit of analysis I’m not sure was intended by the author, but I loved. I think that the author used such a horrid action like drowning a family member to comment on how older generations are leaving younger generations—their own blood—a messy world with no solution to global warming in sight. Even though everyone in the generations that helped shape the world as we know it today probably loves someone in the generation that is growing up, either by blood or not, the majority of them are too ignorant, lazy, or do not have the resources to do anything about our current situation. The older generation may love the new generation, but ultimately, they are drowning us. Once I made that connection, I loved every word of the short story. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, and sorry for the little rant...
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January 30, 2019
For those who missed the first Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Everything Change Vol. 2 is freely available on the ASU site, which you can find here.
Great collection of short stories relating to clifi (climate fiction). All of the stories are interesting, and are frightening all well-conceived and well-written. All of the stories are different, interesting, and the vast majority are rather depressing.
Due to the wide variety of stories provided, you're bound to have stories you like (for me, the deep diving one, my heartstrings) and other stories less so. The topics, while focused on a future climatologically (that's not a word) different from our own, present ten different lifes and experiences: ten different futures, each different, yet bound together with this connecting theme of a changing environment, habitat, and food source, amongst many other things.
The introductions are also very interesting to read and think about; they present a nice introduction to the piece in a more formal, somewhat academic introduction to the topic and anthology.
It's said reading about a dystopia is the best way to prevent it. In the same vein, I reccommend that all read this so said futures can be avoided. Please.
Great collection of short stories relating to clifi (climate fiction). All of the stories are interesting, and are frightening all well-conceived and well-written. All of the stories are different, interesting, and the vast majority are rather depressing.
Due to the wide variety of stories provided, you're bound to have stories you like (for me, the deep diving one, my heartstrings) and other stories less so. The topics, while focused on a future climatologically (that's not a word) different from our own, present ten different lifes and experiences: ten different futures, each different, yet bound together with this connecting theme of a changing environment, habitat, and food source, amongst many other things.
The introductions are also very interesting to read and think about; they present a nice introduction to the piece in a more formal, somewhat academic introduction to the topic and anthology.
It's said reading about a dystopia is the best way to prevent it. In the same vein, I reccommend that all read this so said futures can be avoided. Please.
January 30, 2019
What a great book! My favorite story was "Darkness Full of Light." The problem with a lot of climate fiction is that it focuses too much on science without any character development, which makes it extremely boring (especially because with climate FICTION, a lot of the science is imagined by the authors). This story completely avoids that problem, and manages to have a really compelling main character while also pushing a larger message.
To me, the main character's self-reflection on her selfishness represented a path that we all need to follow, as we look at how much our own use of energy and resources selfishly detracts from what is available to future communities.
It was also funny! I liked the dodo chant.
To me, the main character's self-reflection on her selfishness represented a path that we all need to follow, as we look at how much our own use of energy and resources selfishly detracts from what is available to future communities.
It was also funny! I liked the dodo chant.
February 27, 2019
Well intentioned. But dull.
March 19, 2025
3.5 Stars
Great anthology, but kind of bleak in parts. These aren't optimistic visions of the future, that's for sure. But a necessary read, with a lot of creativity.
Great anthology, but kind of bleak in parts. These aren't optimistic visions of the future, that's for sure. But a necessary read, with a lot of creativity.
December 18, 2019
A selection of short cli-fi, some more memorable than others. Some of the most haunting themes relate to pregnancy and the vulnerability of the unborn child and female body, clearly parallel to the vulnerability facing the ecosystem in the face of the climate crisis. One memorable tale hypothesizes human society living thousands of meters under the ocean's surface, with generations never seeing sunlight. In such a book, catastrophe is always an ongoing reality, a recent memory, or a near-imminent threat: hurricane, drought, starvation, catastrophic fire. In that regard, it's not dissimilar to reading the front pages.
July 8, 2019
Too depressing to finish.
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