This series started out as a simple look at how to add climate change into science fiction world-building. Since then the series has evolved into a comprehensive study of everything writer’s (and other creators) need to know on the subject.
If you are a writer, this is what you need to know about climate change.
Drop in where you like. Some parts will make more sense if read in order.
Basic World-Building
How to write a future climate scenario.
Part 1: Burnt polar bears and making **** up
Part 2: A case study where I go down a rabbit hole about oranges
Part 3: The basics - how much warming?
Part 4: The basics - what time period?
Part 5: The basics - curve-balls
Part 6: If I can’t see it does it exist?
Part 7: The biggest shortcut
Part 8: research resources
Part 9: being beautifully wrong
Part 10: being fantastically wrong
Part 11: prophets of the Apocalypse
Part 12: Mass Extinction
Part 13: The Collapse of Civilisation
Part 14: The Destruction Gap and the Foreclosure of the Imagination
Literary Forms
Different styles of literature, and how they work for climate change.
Part 15: Getting Literary - the Apocalypse for Optimists
Part 16: Getting Literary – Global Weirdness
Part 17: Getting Literary – Actually Epic
Part 18: Getting Literary – Modern Epic, Encyclopedias, and Giant Books About Everything
Part 19: Getting Literary – The Individual Moral Adventure
Part 20: Getting Literary – Realism vs Reality
Part 21: Getting Literary – Tragedy
Part 22: Getting Literary – Comedy
Part 23: Getting Literary – the War and the Bomb
The Fight for the Climate
The struggle over the future of our world.
Part 24: The Fight for the Climate – The Power’s That Be
Part 25: The Fight for the Climate - The Climate Challenge & Social Change
Part 26: The Fight for the Climate – Political Ideology & Planetary Questions
Part 27: The Fight for the Climate – Institutional Failure
Part 28: The Fight for the Climate – The Failure of the Economy
... more coming!
To Be Decided….
Watch this space!
(It’ll probably be something like: how to do writing that actually makes a difference)