Photo: Gregor RichardsonDystopias are best if they are a little way off, and some climate fiction (clifi) obliges. Dunedin writer Chris Else has joined their ranks, describing a future that has arrived sooner than we'd like in his new novel Waterline. Indeed, the likes of Amitav Ghosh's latest novel, Gun Island, is climate fiction - or perhaps reportage - right now: storms washing away Bangladesh as the pages turn. She's a woman from a privileged background, confronting the loss of status in all kinds of ways. And there is the task for fiction in a warming world, Else says.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 27, 2019 14:48 UTC