Andrew Dana Hudson

Andrew Dana Hudson's excellent tale of five possible climate outcomes is an ambitious project, both complex and simple. He calls it speculative fiction, which he discusses in an Afterword, and also includes an Introduction explaining some of his process of writing it, and how it is structured.
It seems complex because the five stories (or chapters or novellas) are based on different models defined by the real-world series of international yearly meetings, called COPs, where diplomats, scientists, business leaders, and other concerned groups discuss how to deal with climate problems.
What makes the book seem simple is Hudson's stories, each a very different scenario of what the COP meetup could be like in 2054, depending on climate action or inaction in the previous thirty years or so. Many groups are mentioned, but there are just four main characters and only a few others named. Each character, Noah, Saga, Diya, and Luis are the same in each story, though changed by circumstances into different but recognizable people.
There is much explaining of the science and politics of climate change, mostly done with dialog. But that's a given for this kind of fiction.
Each of the five outcomes seems possible, each comes with problems. Some are a lot better than others, but I could believe each one. A worthwhile read.… (meer)