We got a lovely shoutout in the online journal “audiodramatic,” run by devoted fans of audio fiction. The emphasis in this issue was on global climate change … which is definitely a force at work in our story.
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I did not start out writing a screed about global climate change … but the more the story “opened up,” that is, the most it became about things other than keeping Konyechny from falling apart, the more interested I got in what daily life was like for people like Sophia. And that started me thinking about what climate might be like in her time.
It was never stated specifically in the show, but there were hints that the ships were launched in 2061, which is not terribly long from now. And given current trends — if nothing major happened to reverse the growing damage — it’s likely to be pretty hard to be alive in 2061. I wish I could say differently but I think the science is now irrefutable.
As I write this, it’s 110F in Seattle, Washington. Seattle. And our hurricane seasons are longer and more destructive every year.
It’s happening, folks, whether we like it or not. Whether we deny it or not. It’s happening.