A lot of sci-fi writing focused on climate is high literary fiction, which means it\u2019s filled with allusion and often difficult to understand.
\nSo, why don\u2019t authors take on climate fiction as a serialized genre like detective novels, zombie books or erotica?
\nIs there a way to make climate fiction more playful without making light of climate change as a global issue?
\nDaniel Backer is the novelist and literature educator behind Off the Wall Novels and the author of Abraham and Lionel Lancet and the Right Vibe.
\nOn this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Daniel joins Ross to explore postmodern and metamodern literature, explaining the postmodern idea that myths guide our decision-making but also make us human.
\nDaniel helps us make sense of Thomas Pynchon\u2019s The Crying of Lot 49, discussing how it plays on the detective genre and why we find comfort in the familiarity of literary conventions.
\nListen in for Daniel\u2019s take on how literature, at its best, comes from a place of character and learn how a writer might personalize the problem of climate change.
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\nResources
\nThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
\n\n\nThe Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
\n\n\nOn Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense by Friedrich Nietzsche
\n\n\nThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
\n\n\n\nHamlet 2: The Creative Process
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