After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction?

“Green, at this point, is a dead fucking brand,” says Kate Morris, the brash and irreverent political organizer at the center of Stephen Markley’s The Deluge. “Green,” for Morris, is traditional environmentalism, along with its preoccupation with aesthetic beauty and faraway places and its commitment to a politics of compromise. Her own group, A Fierce Blue Fire, could easily be mistaken for a “green” environmental organization, but is instead something new: a political group almost exclusively concerned with climate change and willing to bite any hand that isn’t poised to strike at the fossil fuel industry.