You may recall that I translated the novella ChloroPhilia by Cristina Jurado. Over at the Climate Fiction Writers League, Cristina and Debbie Urbanski discuss the story and the ideas behind it.
Cristina: “Funny enough, I wrote ChloroPhilia after moving to Dubai, when my children were very small. We had to learn how to deal with real sandstorms, floods caused by poor drainage, extremely high temperatures and humidity, and a life designed to be lived mostly indoors. My experience raising them in a hostile environment with hyper-modernized infrastructure definitely influenced the kind of apocalypse I chose to write about. The climate crisis is something we experience in our daily lives here, and we’ve had to adapt.”
Read more here about ideas for our future from Cristina and Debbie.
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At last year’s Capricon Science Fiction Convention, I took part in the Speculative Literature Foundations reading. I read the flash fiction piece, “Magic Rules Zero Through Four.” It’s four minutes long, and I’m kind of shouty because the microphones didn’t work. Watch me emote at YouTube.
Semiosis 