Climate Change Fiction

[close] This list focuses on centering the imaginations of authors on the margins for the purposes of inclusion, representation, and from which so much can be learned about resiliency and how to shape the future. “Fiction that centers those who are currently marginalized – not to be nice, but because those who survive on the margins tend to be the most experientially innovative – practicing survival-based efficiency, doing the most with the least, an important skill area on a planet whose resources are under assault by less marginalized people.” – adrienne maree brown

[close] Critically exploring the feminist and speculative edges of sci and cli fi, for possibly better futures, with occasional pankakes.

[close] This is an online book club organised by the INTER-ACTIO teaching innovation project at the University of Valladolid. If you are a university student of English or Spanish as a second/foreign language and would like to meet and discuss literature and other related topics with students from other countries, this book club is for you. Monthly online meetings will be held from February to May (2025) to discuss texts connected with the notion of "futurities", that is,future events or prospects -or rather how literature imagines the future. Before each meeting, you will be expected to read two short texts (one in English and another one in Spanish -if you are proficient in just one of the two languages, you can participate as well).

[close] **SPOILER ALERT** The book 'The Ministry of the Future' by Kim Stanley Robinson, (whom we may more commonly reference as KSR or Stan) is a speculative cli-fi book about the very near future, challenges and solutions we will be encountering there. This group will consist almost completely of spoilers! We will try to remember to label the topics with the header *SPOILER* and then the CHAPTER(S) that are being spoiled. You may want to read the book before you visit this club, or follow along carefully for the technicals and policy wonkery we'll be sharing here. We will endeavor to provide links and media that is understandable and comprehensive. This will be a spoiler heavy group but is mostly aimed at real comprehension of concepts, processes, etc. Please label new topics and include the warning *SPOILER*. Have fun talking and learning about what it will take and how we're not all completely, necessarily doomed!!!