Defying Futility

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Is disaster inevitable? </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Defying Futility </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>offers sixteen stories by the authors of the award-winning climate fiction </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)> that offer a definitive answer to the question with a range of creative heartwarming tales that showcase how real disasters in history might have gone differently. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Instead of a Black Mirror future the stories are a Green Mirror alternative. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Defying Futility </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Fairhaven </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>are perfect for readers of Kim Stanley Robinson's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Ministry for the Future</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)> and Neal Stephenson's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Termination Shock.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>How could the passengers on the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Titanic </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>be saved? Could the devastation of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake have been mitigated? What could have prevented the industrial disasters in Flixborough and Chernobyl - and how might that have changed our history?</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Defying Futility</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)> covers an ambitious range of locations situations and cultures spanning nearly a century. They parallel the common disaster we face today: climate change. The various methods used to adapt to prevent or mitigate the impact of the disasters are designed to offer inspiration to readers who are eager to address the global climate crisis. These stories can help address climate anxiety both for adults and young adults.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>The stories of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>Defying Futility </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(39 38 38 1)>are counterfactual or alternate history; in real life these calamities actually happened with tragic results. While we can't change history we can envision a situation where the impact of a disaster was reduced or even prevented entirely - and we can envision a collective future where we have done the same.</span></p><p></p>