Random questions

[nancylebov]

Inspired by this-- is there any sf about climate wars?

The nearest thing I can think of is Lindholm's Windsinger series, in which the magical control of weather is politically important.

Is there any sf with politically important plate tectonics? I realize it would take immense amounts of time and unlikely cultural attention spans, but I can live with that.

Clarification: When I said "climate war", I didn't mean something usual like fighting over resources which have become limited as a result of natural climate change. I want scope! sense of wonder! difference from the news!-- I'm looking for sf about people who can at least somewhat control the climate and don't agree about what should be done with it.

See also "Primary Education Among the Camiroi", in which a class in world government means actually governing a world (but not a first aspect world, that's cruel).

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Well, yes . . . . but OMG it's bad. Horribly bad. "Natural" climate disaster aggravated by countries waging war over who gets the last of the good air.

[redbird]

I am spacing the title, but I remember one about the effects of the drying up of large amounts of the Great Lakes because of climate change; I think it might be by Mary Robinette Kowal.

But it sounds like you're thinking in terms of people fighting over what the climate will/should be, rather than effects of climate change (in the latter, maybe some end-of-Ice Age stuff?).

[bradhicks.livejournal.com]

Bruce Sterling's done two of them, Heavy Weather and Distraction. And Distraction's one of my current favorite science fiction novels, I re-read it every year or two because it just keeps getting better.

[avram]

I should re-read Distraction. I recall being a bit disappointed in it because I thought Sterling chose the wrong main character. Green Huey seemed like the heart of the book.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Is the word 'geo-engineering'? People wanting to put up giant sunscreens etc?

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Marjorie Bradley Kellogg's Lear's Daughters is closer to being this than it looks.