Utopia

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[close] There are only 6 towns left in the world now, all others have disappeared mysteriously, along with all of the population over the age of 20, and under the age of 2. The people in these towns have stopped aging, too. Nobody knows what happened to the missing people, or the rest of the world, since they're too busy trying to survive. Everybody lives in one of the 6 towns: January, May, July, October, December, and Utopia. Each of the towns is unique, and has something that helps everyone survive.

[close] The term "Climate Fiction" (CF) was first used by Australian novelist James Bradley in 2010 on his online blog Cityoftongues, where he claimed that realistic novels are “hopelessly inadequate” to discuss the implications of climate change, for they would violate the urgency and difficulty of the problem for the sake of coherence. In CF, climate crisis occur in what literary critic Darko Suvin calls novums: fictional worlds validated by cognitive logic. Usually, CF depicts extremely dystopian scenarios characterised by the anthropogenic nature of the environmental threats, which will eventually lead to an apocalyptic scenario. Climate Fiction is at the core of my PhD project at University of Ferrara and I would love to discuss instances of CF with all members of the club.

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