![]() ![]() This story is very much about climate change on a thematic level, but none of the action of the story is driven by climate change or human responses to it. For Blackfish City, three different genres come to mind: Climate Fiction (Setting), Climate Fiction (Refugees), and Dystopian.īlackfish City is a fascinating example of a story that takes the climate crisis very seriously, but doesn’t emphasize climate change as a driving element of the plot. Readers and authors alike are free to ruminate on the nature of genre and how it relates to any given text. Genres are dynamic frameworks that describe texts with similar or related forms and contents. ![]() ![]() Genres: Climate Fiction (Setting), Climate Fiction (Refugees), Dystopian Colorful characters, a riveting plot, and a surreal-yet-believable setting come together to tell the tale of a strange, alienating, and at times terrifying new world born in the wake of the collapse of society as we know it. Miller is a remarkably creative and compelling story about a floating city in the ocean at the top of the world that survives a global collapse caused by climate change. ![]()
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