The author of 'The Deluge,' a 900-page novel about climate collapse, is a surprisingly cheerful guy. Here, he explains how he clings to hope in the face of despair.
The biggest challenge of the book was that I wanted it to be intended for the exact moment of its publication. When it comes out, it should be able to articulate the urgency of the situation we’re in right now. The hardest part of that is getting what I call “the zipper” to meet—making sure that events in the near future reflect what has happened in the immediately recognisable past.
are those already invested in the subject? That it won’t appeal to the people who perhaps need to read it the most? Thanks for bringing that up, because that instinct to just clear the table is so prevalent in fiction, and I see it as fundamentally anti-human and defeatist. And look, I’ll enjoy schlocky end-of-the-world stories as much as the next guy, but I knew this book could not be about how awesome it will be when our society collapses. It will certainlybe awesome. None of us are going back to holistic medicine and friendly subsistence farming.
Is it actually a meta-exercise to expose how the weak-minded can be easily led by a compelling narrative?The challenge of the book was not to accept doom, but to say, “Okay, what do we do?” A lot of that turns up in the character of Ash [a government data analyst]. He thinks that, y’know, we can all play the game of finger-pointing and moralising, we can write wonderful poetry about the tragedy, but at the end of the day, this is an engineering problem, a waste-disposal problem. How can we tackle that? Also, I think the book lays out the case that, although the scale of this problem is so terrifying, a path to a better and more equitable world lies directly through fixing it.
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