Dan Bloom Hopes "Cli-Fi"* Will Sway Non-Believers
In the 1957 pulp classic On the Beach,
the novelist and aeronautical engineer Nevil Shute imagined a horrific
scenario in the aftermath of World War III. A small group of survivors
clustered in southern Australia await the arrival of a deadly
radioactive cloud, contemplating the near-certainty that the rest of
humanity has already perished.
It’s a terrifying prospect, of course,
which is why the book has retained its grip on the public imagination,
adapted twice as a movie and, in 2008, as a BBC radio broadcast. Dan
Bloom first read On the Beach in a high school English class in 1967. It gave him Cold War nightmares.
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James Sullivan is the author of books on George Carlin, James Brown and the history of blue jeans, a regular contributor to the Boston Globe and former staff critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Follow him on Twitter @sullivanjames.
* Climate fiction, or climate change fiction, popularly abbreviated as cli-fi (modelled after the assonance of "sci-fi") is a term describing a growing body of fiction literature that deals with climate change and global warming. (Wikipedia)