Climate Change Fiction

[close] Common reading creates community among first-year students and across campus. Each year, incoming students are presented with an engaging book that will be the focus of a campus-wide discussion. This year's book is Clade by author James Bradley. We are excited to have the opportunity to connect with you about this book, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts! Check out our website for more info: https://fyp.uoregon.edu/common-read

[close] This group celebrates adult Scifi & future-focused Fiction - written by women and nonbinary authors - mostly 21st century with a smattering of classics ★彡 ON HIATUS SINCE 2023, but our group bookshelf of over 1000+ titles remains open ミ★ **Note: New member requests will only be reviewed monthly. We only accept those who have a public profile and answer our mandatory question. Authors are welcome, but self-promotion is not permitted Visit our sister group, Worlds Beyond the Margins, which celebrates adult SFF/H that promotes diversity and inclusion.

[close] The term "Climate Fiction" (CF) was first used by Australian novelist James Bradley in 2010 on his online blog Cityoftongues, where he claimed that realistic novels are “hopelessly inadequate” to discuss the implications of climate change, for they would violate the urgency and difficulty of the problem for the sake of coherence. In CF, climate crisis occur in what literary critic Darko Suvin calls novums: fictional worlds validated by cognitive logic. Usually, CF depicts extremely dystopian scenarios characterised by the anthropogenic nature of the environmental threats, which will eventually lead to an apocalyptic scenario. Climate Fiction is at the core of my PhD project at University of Ferrara and I would love to discuss instances of CF with all members of the club.

[close] This is an online book club organised by the INTER-ACTIO teaching innovation project at the University of Valladolid. If you are a university student of English or Spanish as a second/foreign language and would like to meet and discuss literature and other related topics with students from other countries, this book club is for you. Monthly online meetings will be held from February to May (2025) to discuss texts connected with the notion of "futurities", that is,future events or prospects -or rather how literature imagines the future. Before each meeting, you will be expected to read two short texts (one in English and another one in Spanish -if you are proficient in just one of the two languages, you can participate as well).