{"id":5227,"date":"2023-12-09T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2023-12-09T20:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:11:53","slug":"loosed-upon-the-world-the-saga-anthology-of-climate-fiction-edited-by-john-joseph-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/12\/09\/loosed-upon-the-world-the-saga-anthology-of-climate-fiction-edited-by-john-joseph-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosed upon the world : the Saga anthology of climate fiction edited by John Joseph Adams."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on the genre of &#8220;climate fiction,&#8221; which now, in late 2023 is pretty well defined, this entry suggests it has been around for centuries but gained momentum around 2010.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TSsaHf3MaE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/cli-fi\/\">Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction)&#8221; &#8212; Climate in Arts and History\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/cli-fi\/embed\/#?secret=s8HTzjUmNt#?secret=TSsaHf3MaE\" data-secret=\"TSsaHf3MaE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia entry for Climate Fiction<\/a> contains this: &#8220;Technologies such as climate engineering or climate adaptation practices often feature prominently in works exploring their impacts on society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I just finished the book listed below, there was only one story I didn&#8217;t finish, but I avidly read all the others. Read with caution, some really believable renderings of our future which triggered a few troubling dreams. A great way to discover some new authors as well as get your socks scared off you. I found this in the stacks at our local library as I searched for Mr. Bacigalupi&#8217;s work. I was reminded of my love of anthologies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"detailCover0\" class=\"detail_cover_art\" title=\"Cover image for Loosed upon the world : the Saga anthology of climate fiction\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=sonomaco&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781481453073&amp;issn=\/LC.JPG\" alt=\"Cover image for Loosed upon the world : the Saga anthology of climate fiction\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Loosed upon the world : the Saga anthology of climate fiction<\/i> edited by John Joseph Adams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Shooting the Apocalypse \/ Paolo Bacigalupi<br \/>\n&#8212; The myth of rain \/ Seanan McGuire<br \/>\n&#8212; Outer rims \/ Toiya Kristen Finley<br \/>\n&#8212; Kheldyu \/ Karl Schroeder<br \/>\n&#8212; The snows of yesteryear \/ Jean-Louis Trudel<br \/>\n&#8212; The rainy season \/ Tobias S. Buckell<br \/>\n&#8212; A hundred hundred daisies \/ Nancy Kress<br \/>\n&#8212; The Netherlands lives with water \/ Jim Shepard<br \/>\n&#8212; The precedent \/ Sean McMullen<br \/>\n&#8212; Hot sky \/ Robert Silverberg<br \/>\n&#8212; That creeping sensation \/ Alan Dean Foster<br \/>\n&#8212; Truth and consequences \/ Kim Stanley Robinson<br \/>\n&#8212; Entanglement \/ Vandana Singh<br \/>\n&#8212; Staying afloat \/ Angela Penrose<br \/>\n&#8212; Eighth wonder \/ Chris Bachelder<br \/>\n&#8212; Eagle \/ Gregory Benford<br \/>\n&#8212; Outliers \/ Nicole Feldringer<br \/>\n&#8212; Quiet town \/ Jason Gurley<br \/>\n&#8212; The day it all ended \/ Charlie Jane Anders<br \/>\n&#8212; The smog society \/ Chen Qiufan<br \/>\n&#8212; Racing the tide \/ Craig DeLancey<br \/>\n&#8212; Mutant stag at Horn Creek \/ Sarah K. Castle<br \/>\n&#8212; Hot rods \/ Cat Sparks<br \/>\n&#8212; The Tamarisk hunter \/ Paolo Bacigalupi<br \/>\n&#8212; Mitigation \/ Tobias Buckell &amp; Karl Schroeder<br \/>\n&#8212; Time capsule found on the dead planet \/ Margaret Atwood<br \/>\n&#8212; Afterword: science scarier than fiction \/ Ramez Naam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on the genre of &#8220;climate fiction,&#8221; which now, in late 2023 is pretty well defined, this entry suggests it has been around for centuries but gained momentum around 2010. Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) The Wikipedia entry for Climate Fiction contains this: &#8220;Technologies such as climate engineering or climate adaptation practices often feature prominently in works &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/12\/09\/loosed-upon-the-world-the-saga-anthology-of-climate-fiction-edited-by-john-joseph-adams\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4314,4,6,7,8,2308,11,12,2148,2520,13,14,15,16,3279,17,1,4604],"tags":[4589,4591,1960,4600,4596,4597,4592,4574,2035,4576,4575,4598,4578,4593,4595,4583,4586,4582,2040,4581,4577,4602,4585,4594,4579,4603,4588,4599,4587,4580,4036,4601,4584,4590],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5227","6":"format-standard","7":"category-arts","8":"category-climate-change","9":"category-ethical-and-green-living","10":"category-faits-divers","11":"category-feminism","12":"category-future-of-work","13":"category-it-failures","14":"category-nuclear-industry","15":"category-obituaries","16":"category-pandemic","17":"category-politics","18":"category-racism","19":"category-science","20":"category-sea-stories","21":"category-the-anthropocene","22":"category-thinking-about","23":"category-uncategorized","24":"category-what-i-read","25":"post_tag-alan-dean-foster","26":"post_tag-angela-penrose","27":"post_tag-apocalypse","28":"post_tag-cat-sparks","29":"post_tag-charlie-jane-anders","30":"post_tag-chen-qiufan","31":"post_tag-chris-bachelder","32":"post_tag-cli-fi","33":"post_tag-climate","34":"post_tag-climate-engineering","35":"post_tag-climate-fiction","36":"post_tag-craig-delancey","37":"post_tag-fiction","38":"post_tag-gregory-benford","39":"post_tag-jason-gurley","40":"post_tag-jean-louis-trudel","41":"post_tag-jim-shepard","42":"post_tag-karl-schroeder","43":"post_tag-kim-stanley-robinson","44":"post_tag-kristen-finley","45":"post_tag-literature","46":"post_tag-margaret-atwood","47":"post_tag-nancy-kress","48":"post_tag-nicole-feldringer","49":"post_tag-paolo-bacigalupi","50":"post_tag-ramez-naam","51":"post_tag-robert-silverberg","52":"post_tag-sarah-k-castle","53":"post_tag-sean-mcmullen","54":"post_tag-seanan-mcguire","55":"post_tag-the-future","56":"post_tag-tobias-buckell","57":"post_tag-tobias-s-buckell","58":"post_tag-vandana-singh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}