Selena Middleton: In post-apocalyptic climate fiction, the setting tells us as much about the survivors and their possible futures as it does about the world they’ve lost. Climate Collapse, “Progress,” and the Role of Institutions In the following review, Selena Middleton and Kristen Shaw, of climate change-focused Stelliform Press, adopt the form of a back-and-forth conversation to discuss Mohamed’s extraordinary climate fiction and its implications for community resilience, individual responsibility, and the importance of adaptability in a time of deep disturbance. Ensconced in the remains of a university campus, Reid reckons with the fate of her Cad-infected family and friends, her own diagnosis, and her responsibility to her community after she learns that she has been accepted into a university program at a distant but resource-rich institution. Isolated and vulnerable, Reid Graham and her small community eke out a subsistence living from a changeable land harbouring the horror of the parasitic Cad fungus, which has spread to humans. Premee Mohamed’s The Annual Migration of Clouds (a novella released this September from the Canadian ECW Press) is set in a post-climate-apocalypse Alberta.
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