Interesting to compare Cade's state-of-climate-fiction reflections at the end of this (great) review-essay with those in this essay in Prospect, also jumping off from the Climate Prize shortlist www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7375...
And here is a disappointing sighting of said cliché in the wild, just yesterday (The End of Everything is great) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Was a real pleasure speaking with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social about SF in Translation for the @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social Substack. Small Planet is definitely worth a read for anyone interested in SF beyond the Anglosphere!
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This bleak but brilliant tale of enigmatic alien entities and slow social collapse exposes the terrifying insecurity of life right now
Single Syllable Symphony: for this month's Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at language and worldbuilding in Rebecca Gransden’s FIGURES CROSSING THE FIELD TOWARDS THE GROUP (Tangerine Press)
Roseanna Pendlebury The first thing that stands out in Rebecca Gransden’s Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press), joint winner of the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize, i…
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First review of the week over at SH is a long one, and brilliantly so. Here’s @octavia-cade.bsky.social on this year’s Climate Fiction Prize shortlist.
Producing this *after* the winner was announced for me lets the shortlist breathe some more - and affords alternative readings to the judges’.
This is a shortlist that considers climate through the lens of aesthetic rather than urgency.
