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Taking a Triple Cannonball into the Rising Sea Level!

The Way the World Ends by Jess Walter

Boca Raton by Lauren Groff

Controller by Jesse Kellerman

There's No Place Like Home by Edan Lepucki

Falls the Shadow by Skip Horack

The Hillside by Jane Smiley

At the Bottom of New Lake by Sonya Larson

December 30, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 10 Comments

Is it hot in here, or is it just these stories? oh, the temperature is definitely rising folks, from GLOBAL WARMING! I struggle with looking climate change in the face; I am concerned, I am trying to do my part, but the onslaught of facts is just too depressing. Climate-change based fiction, though, clicks in a way that I was not expecting. I suppose there is a level of empathy that transcends the “just the facts” nature of the news when the same information is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Edan Lepucki, jane smiley, Jess Walter, Jesse Kellerman, lauren groff, Skip Horack, Sonya Larson

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:158 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Edan Lepucki, jane smiley, Jess Walter, Jesse Kellerman, lauren groff, Skip Horack, Sonya Larson ·
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