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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change Denialism in SF
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 14:32:42 -0600
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On 12/7/2024 12:48 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <robertaw-ED1870.21583806122024@news.individual.net>,
> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>> I know of one book, _The Last Centurion_ by John Ringo (published in
>> 2008). There are probably others. What is really odd about _tLC_, is
>> that there was a pandemic starting, IIRC, in 2019 (a really nasty one -
>> world fatalities, IMS, exceeded 1 billion). Oh, yes, the US presidential
>> administration flubbed the response, big time (I believe the president
>> was a "Hillary Clinton" pastiche). There was significant turmoil over
>> the 2020 Presidential election as well.
> 
> Camestros Felapton looked for Contrarian Cli-Fi in 2022 and found
> surprisingly few examples, of which the Ringo was one. Another was
> Pournelle, Niven, and Flynn's dire Fallen Angels, which judging
> by the frequency with which people mentioned it in the comments to
> relevant essays of mine on Tor Dot Com/Reactor is by far the
> better known of the two. Crichton's State of Fear was a third
> (and I have not read it).
> 
> Otherwise, esp if one leaves off pre-1990 examples, CCF is a weirdly
> undersupplied genre, at least from major publishers. Lots of authors
> loudly proclaim their skepticism but it does not seem to percolate
> into their fiction.
> 
> (There was an odd assertion in an L. Neil Smith about Antarctica
> being ice-free 15,000 years ago but it didn't really figure into
> the plot)

James, you have a great memory.

Lynn