When 'Everything' Is Changing, Stories Have A Role To Play
The editors of this new anthology — drawn from a story contest run by Arizona State University — argue that stories are as necessary as policy and technology in the fight against climate change.
Someday soon, the rains will come and they will wash away everything and everyone you love.
Someday soon, the seas will rise. The temperatures will rise. The plants will die and the animals will die and we will die.
Where once we obsessed over nuclear annihilation or zombies or rogue AI or technological civilizations slipping back into barbarism in our scifi — where once we used these things to describe, at one remove, the wars and nightmares of our collective present — now we have a much more present future, a much more close
