Event Tag: climate fiction

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Logo for ASU's Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative
Internationally renowned, award-winning authors like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi and Ian McEwan are turning to the emerging literary genre of Climate Fiction – or Cli-Fi – to tell stories set

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Image of author Omar El Akkad, shoulders-up, in a black shirt, against the backdrop of a multicolored map of the United States.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019, 6:00PM | Ventana Ballroom, Memorial Union In this year’s annual Imagination and Climate Futures Lecture, Omar El Akkad talks about how he came to write his debut novel, American War – the events that inspired it, the references buried throughout the text and the places he visited to research the book.

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On the left, an illustration of the Earth in a grid of dots and lines. On the right, tall, futuristic buildings shaped like trees, encased in greenery.
As we imagine a climate future based on science and policy projections, fiction writers are increasingly imagining climate-impacted worlds of their own. These imagined futures might appear unbelievable or unsettling,

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Join Claire Vaye Watkins, award-winning author of the climate fiction novel Gold Fame Citrus and the short fiction collection Battleborn, for a virtual reading and a conversation about climate writing.