Great reads, I'm especially interested in the second title about the sustainability of nature reserves. Do you address this topic in any of your books? I'm currently reading Rebel Sisters and enjoying it a lot.
Not directly, but the issue of "West/colonizers" repurposing of land already populated by the people who live there is a huge theme in Goliath. And thank you re Rebel Sisters! I hope you continue to enjoy it!
I'll finish it soon, it's absolutely fantastic. It took me a while to get into the world while reading War Sisters, picturing the mechs and the red lands and synths and cyberized people was an exercise in imagination. But once I did, I started to enjoy the book a lot. It's been a while since I read two books in less than a month. :)
I have a question for you: Your books are listed under climate fiction. Do you also consider them cli-fi or rather sci-fi? Or both?
I don't mind the labels at all. I think cli-fi as a label is new enough that it's still figuring out both its members and its progenitors, some of whose authors may not have really thought about the specifics of that genre while writing. But as a way of putting books in conversation with each other, I think it's pretty cool. Sometimes cli-fi can seem like a subgenre of sci-fi, but it's also interesting seeing it appear in more traditionally realist literature. In a neat bit of genre border-crossing, Maja Lunde has an incredible series of novels on our relationship with the climate, and Alex Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun is another fascinating example of an author exploring the ways (sometimes satirical) in which our relationship to the world around us is changing.
Great reads, I'm especially interested in the second title about the sustainability of nature reserves. Do you address this topic in any of your books? I'm currently reading Rebel Sisters and enjoying it a lot.
Not directly, but the issue of "West/colonizers" repurposing of land already populated by the people who live there is a huge theme in Goliath. And thank you re Rebel Sisters! I hope you continue to enjoy it!
I'll have a look at Goliath as well, thanks.
I'll finish it soon, it's absolutely fantastic. It took me a while to get into the world while reading War Sisters, picturing the mechs and the red lands and synths and cyberized people was an exercise in imagination. But once I did, I started to enjoy the book a lot. It's been a while since I read two books in less than a month. :)
I have a question for you: Your books are listed under climate fiction. Do you also consider them cli-fi or rather sci-fi? Or both?
I don't mind the labels at all. I think cli-fi as a label is new enough that it's still figuring out both its members and its progenitors, some of whose authors may not have really thought about the specifics of that genre while writing. But as a way of putting books in conversation with each other, I think it's pretty cool. Sometimes cli-fi can seem like a subgenre of sci-fi, but it's also interesting seeing it appear in more traditionally realist literature. In a neat bit of genre border-crossing, Maja Lunde has an incredible series of novels on our relationship with the climate, and Alex Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun is another fascinating example of an author exploring the ways (sometimes satirical) in which our relationship to the world around us is changing.