A Way to Write Science Fiction About Climate Change

But escapism written specifically to avoid the current moment does not satisfy the windmill-tilting urges of the honorable sci-fi writer, who knows that the greatest works of their genre, no matter when they are set, are fundamentally about the current moment. He explores and describes the byzantine structures of corrupt land deals and high rise schemes with extreme detail, and to create speculative versions of these schemes was an absolute joy, like figuring out how to build a LEGO Death Star out of a couple of LEGO pirate ship sets. Like Travis, and like us, they mourn the devastation of the natural world, the oppression of large, uncaring organizations, and their relative powerlessness against the tide of change.

Author: Tim Chawaga

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