Weathering the storms

The dire consequences of climate change have become fertile ground for fiction writers.

'If each generation grapples with its own apocalypse, mine is facing the terror of climate change," says Fernanda Trías, in an author's note for the Uruguayan's award-winning novel Pink Slime. That terror comes with inequality and environmental change, and the ways in which communities navigate the consequences of climate change are becoming fertile ground for fiction writers.

1 In the novel, a nameless protagonist leads a tenuous existence in a port city, as unstoppable algal blooms bring with them suffocation and plague, the waterways choking around those who are too poor to migrate inland and those who are too sick to leave. A red wind flays the stragglers alive; the tainted bodies of the infected are shredded down to raw muscle.