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...
Can novels about the climate emergency offer hope for a better tomorrow?
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.
