The Long Heat, an energy coup, a season of asthma … new Australian cli-fi novel Children of Tomorrow challenges the form but is rife with contradictions
- Written by: Meg Brayshaw, John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
Melting Arctic sea ice.David Goldman/APFor at least the past decade, writers and critics have been debating the capacity of literary fiction to represent the realities of climate change. Some argue fiction is one of our best tools for reckoning with a world transfigured by anthropogenic warming. Others believe traditional narrative modes are...
