I also loved The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (2009) and his short stories. Could not manage The Water Knife. It's waiting for a stronger moment in my life.
I remember bouncing off The Windup Girl some years ago; probably should give it another shot. This is such a capacious genre . . . such diversity of purpose. Have a look at THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT (1939) . . . I started into it thinking it would feel dated--I mean, some books I read sort of anthropologically, but this had a narrator that was full of himself but not unlikable (he raised prize chickens), but he proves to be a worthy companion to watch the end of the world with . . . In a few weeks I'm going to post about Persephone Books--it's one of theirs. Check out their online catalog:
Thanks for the recommendation. I will look for THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT. Have you read WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin? It shows it's age now and again, but it's still better than 1984, the novel Orwell said he was inspired by WE to write.
A small group of people board a generation ship, hoping to find a habitable alternative to their world of overwhelming pollution and ecological exhaustion.
I have always thought of THE DAZZLE OF DAY as a utopia, but without the suffering child in the basement. We read Omegas first in my "Utopia and Dream" class and then looked at real and fictional idealistic communities, always seeking who got stuck in the basement to make the perfection possible.
It's not really about climate change.... not really. It's about how to build a better world, about leaving everything you know including your language behind (the international community agrees to Esperanta), the challenges of people living peacefully in limited space on a generation ship, and the shock of facing wide open spaces.
I also loved The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (2009) and his short stories. Could not manage The Water Knife. It's waiting for a stronger moment in my life.
I remember bouncing off The Windup Girl some years ago; probably should give it another shot. This is such a capacious genre . . . such diversity of purpose. Have a look at THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT (1939) . . . I started into it thinking it would feel dated--I mean, some books I read sort of anthropologically, but this had a narrator that was full of himself but not unlikable (he raised prize chickens), but he proves to be a worthy companion to watch the end of the world with . . . In a few weeks I'm going to post about Persephone Books--it's one of theirs. Check out their online catalog:
https://persephonebooks.flywheelsites.com/catalogue/index.html
Thanks for the recommendation. I will look for THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT. Have you read WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin? It shows it's age now and again, but it's still better than 1984, the novel Orwell said he was inspired by WE to write.
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss
A small group of people board a generation ship, hoping to find a habitable alternative to their world of overwhelming pollution and ecological exhaustion.
Good one. I'll start accumulating for Cli-fi [2] . . .
I have always thought of THE DAZZLE OF DAY as a utopia, but without the suffering child in the basement. We read Omegas first in my "Utopia and Dream" class and then looked at real and fictional idealistic communities, always seeking who got stuck in the basement to make the perfection possible.
It's not really about climate change.... not really. It's about how to build a better world, about leaving everything you know including your language behind (the international community agrees to Esperanta), the challenges of people living peacefully in limited space on a generation ship, and the shock of facing wide open spaces.