QUOTE UNQUOTE from the interview transcript and podcast:
RADIO HOST: Why do you think we’re seeing so many dystopian books and movies these days? They’re everywhere.
ATWOOD: Of all kinds, fantasy and reality. I think it’s partly because people feel unsettled about the future, especially young people. They are envisaging a future in which there’s a lot more social instability. And climate changes factors into that in a really big way.
''In fact, there’s a whole subgenre called ''cli-fi'' – climate fiction – which has now become recognized and people are writing books about it. ''
That’s coming just from where people fear they are, just as George Orwell’s 1984 was written in 1948. It was about Soviet-style socialism as it would get played out in England. Stuff comes from where we are. I think Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World comes from him being traumatized by a visit to Hollywood in the ’30s. “Oh no, there are going to be perfume fountains–what are we going to do?”
ATWOOD: Of all kinds, fantasy and reality. I think it’s partly because people feel unsettled about the future, especially young people. They are envisaging a future in which there’s a lot more social instability. And climate changes factors into that in a really big way.
''In fact, there’s a whole subgenre called ''cli-fi'' – climate fiction – which has now become recognized and people are writing books about it. ''
That’s coming just from where people fear they are, just as George Orwell’s 1984 was written in 1948. It was about Soviet-style socialism as it would get played out in England. Stuff comes from where we are. I think Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World comes from him being traumatized by a visit to Hollywood in the ’30s. “Oh no, there are going to be perfume fountains–what are we going to do?”
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