I follow Paolo Bacigalupi and he recently posted a link to a writing contest being run by a climate activist organization Grist. From the posting: This isn't my bag of chips story-wise, but Mr. Bacigalupi is a successful trad-published author, so I feel pretty sure he's promoting something legit. Link to the contest and all its information is here. I have no affiliation to the contest, the organizers, or Mr. Bacigalupi other than having bought a couple of his books from Amazon at full price.
I am someone who is rather concerned about these issues. I will consider it, though most of my writing on the topic is more to the dystopian side. Cautionary tales if you will. I don't know if I have it in me to write a polyanaish tale on the topic. I have studied science, and have read On the Origin of Species. I am not optimistic.
Dang, they lost me at 'decolonized future'...but there's money involved and I like money. I'm just not a happy 'positive future' sort of person so I doubt anything I'd write would appeal to a winning entry vote. Thanks for the post though Iain, if the prompt were different I would!
Any bright future story I could write would involve a world with a much smaller human population, and I don't see getting there in that little time short of a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.
I can only wonder what your less than bright future story might involve - but this is fiction, where anything is possible - in this case, the wilder the better I'd say. Anyone who refers to descendants as 'future ancestors' is looking for hyperbole...
Already writing an eco fiction story, but it's far past that word limit and not finished I'll pass thank you love, but thanks for the link.
