5/29/2023 0 Comments The rain heron robbie arnott![]() ![]() The alarming extent of the environmental crisis we, as a species, have created for ourselves seems to have necessitated this embrace of the fantastic. Reality is many things, but it is not realistic.Ī great deal has been written about the turn towards speculative and dystopian fiction that has become such a conspicuous feature of the literature of the Anthropocene. It is like living through Nineteen Eighty-Four and Endgame and Soylent Green all at once, except everyone is trapped in a clown car being driven over a cliff. It is a poorly written conspiracy thriller, in which the world is run by evil nincompoops who are so smug and lazy they can’t be bothered hiding their corruption. It is a sadistic horror story, a terrifying nightmare, a surreal farrago, an appalling farce. If reality can be said to have a genre, that genre is not realism. ![]()
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