Better Late Than Never

It's not quite the end of July, which means there's still time to put this up as "timely"! Ansible! Ansible!

AS OTHERS SEE US. _Cli-Fi Dept._ Some novels about climate change are of course more equal than others: 'Many of the 70-odd books written up to the late 1990s were science fiction, says Mr Trexler _[who has made a list]_, and tended to treat climate change as one of several problems rather than the main one. / The pattern changed as growing numbers of notable writers began tackling the topic, from Margaret Atwood (_Oryx and Crake_) or Michael Crichton (_State of Fear_), Jeanette Winterson (_The Stone Gods_), Ian McEwan (_Solar_) and Barbara Kingsolver (_Flight Behaviour_).' (_Financial Times_, 1 June) [MMW] Poor J.G. Ballard was presumably too early an adopter to be notable for _The Drowned World_. Executive summary: 'Don't call it "science fiction". Cli-fi is literary fiction.' (_Christian Science Monitor_ headline, 26 April) [BT]

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