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Re: Can a 'carbon coin' save the world? It may be put to the test

danbloom — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 19:40:07 -0000

Won't happen. But keep dreaming.

Re: Richard Swerdlow: Walk on By

danbloom — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:42:36 -0000

Rrirrrrrri

Re: Is Geoengineering the Only Solution?: Exploring Climate Crisis in Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”

danbloom — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 01:17:44 -0000

Rebecca Evans writes her review here of Termination Shock from a deep background in speculative fiction and sci-fi. It's a very good read.

Re: A Millennial’s Purgatory: On Joy Williams’s “Harrow”

danbloom — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 07:04:49 -0000

Very well said, Phil. For the kind of review you would like to read see Nathaniel Rich's new longform review of Harrow.

Re: Facing the Speculative: ‘Parable of the Sower’ as a parallel to our society

danbloom — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:05:38 -0000

Great essay.

Re: Of Course They Would: On Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future”

danbloom — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 10:17:43 -0000

Well said

Re: Of Course They Would: On Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future”

danbloom — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 03:16:42 -0000

In a recent interview Robinson said that this novel was likely to be his last "big" sci-fi novel and that future works would be on a smaller scale -- short stories, novellas, essays. It all depends on what his editors (and KSR himself) decide to publish in the future. There might not be another massive novel like "The Ministry for the Future" from him again.

Re: Loanwords for the Anthropocene: On Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy’s “An Ecotopian Lexicon”

danbloom — Sat, 02 May 2020 00:23:38 -0000

Professor Otto, thanks for this great book review and starting an important discussion with readers. Bravo!

Re: Writing Fiction in the Age of Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation Between Anne Charnock and James Bradley

danbloom — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 01:45:15 -0000

Fascinating discussion of that ugly shorthand for sciencefic fiction and that hideous 21st century neologism dubbed "sci-fi" by literary critics and book reviewers worldwide. Bravo Anne and James.

Re: Writing Fiction in the Age of Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation Between Anne Charnock and James Bradley

danbloom — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:22:25 -0000

A fantastic discussion here between two very engaged sci-fi novelists, thanks to the LARB editors for setting up and arranging this extraordinary literary conversation. Can't wait to read "Ghost Species" now!

Re: Jenny Offill Pioneers The Pre-Apocalyptic Novel with “Weather”

danbloom — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:22:37 -0000

Yes, a new cli-fi novel to add to the Canon.

Re: Survival Tips: On Jenny Offill’s “Weather”

danbloom — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:05:58 -0000

Stephanie has written the best review so far of Jenny Offill's "Weather." Reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, NPR and 25 other review outlets, while good and useful, missed the boat. Stephanie has the right ticket here. Bravo!

Re: Battling the False Narratives Around Australia’s Devastating Bushfires

danbloom — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:07:49 -0000

Cli-fi it is. A new literary genre is born.

Re: Je Suis Charlie

danbloom — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:12:56 -0000

Well said, Seth. Well said.

Re: What “Climate Fiction” Does

danbloom — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:52:30 -0000

Bravo, what a very interesting essay. I enjoyed reading it on the last day of 2019 here in Taiwan

Re: ‘Gemini Man’ Faces $75 Million Dollar Loss At The Box Office

danbloom — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 05:56:15 -0000

I'm in Taiwan since 1991 and I'd like to ask Ang Lee to read my comment and make a movie using Barbara Kingsolver bestseller Flight Behavior for the adaption to a screenplay. If anyone can translate her 2012 novel to the screen it's Ang Lee. Ang?

Re: Can a 1960s-like Counterculture Emerge?

danbloom — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:29:16 -0000

Yes, Walter, in the 2020s, a new counterculture will arise worldwide. See my website at The Cli-Fi Report at www.cli-fi.net

Re: Are Words the Enemy of Belonging? On Paul Kingsnorth’s “Savage Gods”

danbloom — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 02:49:31 -0000

And thank you, Ellie Robins, for the words above!

Re: Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

danbloom — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:52:58 -0000

Thank you for adding the hot link. Perfect. Thanks for listening to this loyal LitHub reader.

Re: Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

danbloom — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:20:42 -0000

Note to Lit Hub editors: would it be possible to provide readers with a hot link to that 4 part series on climate change book lists, in case they didn't see it when first published here earlier this year, April I think? 365 climate change books list.

Re: Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

danbloom — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:03:58 -0000

What a great "start of the school year" essay by L.A. high school teacher Mark Gozonsky! A British friend who lives in Vietnam sent me the link by email. Mark, more more! You're a natural born writer and the kids at your school are lucky to have a teacher like you. Bravo!

Re: Does Science Fiction Have a Moral Imperative to Address Climate Change?

danbloom — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:22:38 -0000

Andrew, well said. Thanks for this. Your deep dive into the sci-fi subgenre of "cli-fi" is an important essay. Bravo.

Re: The Mad Scientist Vision

danbloom — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:42:38 -0000

Yes, the two professors at Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts creates a very interesting way to combine science and literature. I coined the cli-fi term in 2011 and have been busy since then promoting the genre in academia. It's catching on. I'm 70, independent literary gadfly. Born and raised in western Massachusetts, too. Loved this post, sir. Cheers, Dan Bloom now based in Taiwan since 1991. No PhD just me.

Re: Gun Island and the Stories That Survive a Changing Planet

danbloom — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 03:18:46 -0000

Very nice post, Torsa

Re: It Won’t Love You Back: An Interview with Maria Tumarkin

danbloom — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 05:13:25 -0000

Absolutely rivetting interview, both the questions and the answers from two writers Down Under. Bravo!