Exactly the same kind of story we always have, through every apocalypse: the fall of Rome, the Black Death, Gilgamesh’s flood, the Warring States, all of it, the many times and ways in which the world has ended. Valente’s response: Well, we’ll tell exactly the same kinds of stories we do now. One of the questions that anthology asked was, “What kind of stories would we tell in the new world created by the climate crisis?” The Future is Blue started for a climate change anthology by Jonathan Strahan, called Drowned Worlds. The Past is Red is Catherynne Valente’s novella-length sequel to her short story, The Future Is Blue (also included with this book.) It follows Tetley Abednego, the most hated girl in Garbagetown.
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