I am going to partially spoil a book for you, but maybe not because I don't even know if it's the sort of thing you'd pick up. My housemate L strongly recommended reading The Fifth Season, to the point where he was trying to buy copies of it to give to the rest of us. Books 1 and 2 of a trilogy are published so far. It's fantasy, but with certain key aspects that have a basis in reality. It took me a stupidly long time to realize that it was talking about climate change in something of a speculative fiction manner (in addition to covering a wide range of social issues). And that made me wake up and pay attention to the book in a new and different way. Here's where we need fiction: we humans aren't always good at imagining the future. Fiction is one way that we can share imaginings, though. Fiction holds power.
Sometimes I also find that I just have to sit with myself for a while.
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Date: 2016-11-15 02:07 am (UTC)I am going to partially spoil a book for you, but maybe not because I don't even know if it's the sort of thing you'd pick up. My housemate L strongly recommended reading The Fifth Season, to the point where he was trying to buy copies of it to give to the rest of us. Books 1 and 2 of a trilogy are published so far. It's fantasy, but with certain key aspects that have a basis in reality. It took me a stupidly long time to realize that it was talking about climate change in something of a speculative fiction manner (in addition to covering a wide range of social issues). And that made me wake up and pay attention to the book in a new and different way. Here's where we need fiction: we humans aren't always good at imagining the future. Fiction is one way that we can share imaginings, though. Fiction holds power.
Sometimes I also find that I just have to sit with myself for a while.