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Climate change features in almost all of the fictional sources consulted for this book. Often it forms the context or backdrop for a post-apocalyptic eutopia or (more often) dystopia. Sometimes it is the main focus of the narrative. In this chapter, I have selected five fictional texts. Three come from the most productive contemporary Utopian author, Kim Stanley Robinson and two are examples of fiction written for young readers. Although these texts have different (intended) audiences, they all illustrate one kind of utopianism; the dystopia. Some are catastrophe dramas and some are post-apocalyptic. They all perform the classic dystopian of identifying key problems with the now, stretching these to extremes and placing them in an imaginary future. They offer warnings.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137031075_6

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