Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change Denialism in SF

In article <robertaw-ED1870.21583806122024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

I know of one book, _The Last Centurion_ by John Ringo (published in
2008). There are probably others. What is really odd about _tLC_, is
that there was a pandemic starting, IIRC, in 2019 (a really nasty one -
world fatalities, IMS, exceeded 1 billion). Oh, yes, the US presidential
administration flubbed the response, big time (I believe the president
was a "Hillary Clinton" pastiche). There was significant turmoil over
the 2020 Presidential election as well.

Camestros Felapton looked for Contrarian Cli-Fi in 2022 and found
surprisingly few examples, of which the Ringo was one. Another was
Pournelle, Niven, and Flynn's dire Fallen Angels, which judging
by the frequency with which people mentioned it in the comments to
relevant essays of mine on Tor Dot Com/Reactor is by far the
better known of the two. Crichton's State of Fear was a third
(and I have not read it).

Otherwise, esp if one leaves off pre-1990 examples, CCF is a weirdly
undersupplied genre, at least from major publishers. Lots of authors
loudly proclaim their skepticism but it does not seem to percolate
into their fiction. 

(There was an odd assertion in an L. Neil Smith about Antarctica
being ice-free 15,000 years ago but it didn't really figure into
the plot)



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