With a world set to be changed irrevocably by Antarctic ice melt, it's unsettling to wonder about the reading that will remain relevant
Ice bookshelf … Thwaites Glacier in Western Antarctica, whose collapse is predicted in a Nasa-funded study to raise global sea level nearly two feet. Photograph: Handout/AFP/Getty Images
Over at independent press Melville House's excellent blog Mob
yLives, marketing manager Dustin Kurtz is asking an intriguing – and horribly depressing – question. "When the globe is hit with a 10ft rise in sea level, which of our books will suddenly become fantastic?"
Off the back of the two studies which earlier this week warned that the collapse of the western Antarctica ice sheet is already under way, and that it could "eventually cause up to four metres (13ft) of sea-level rise, devastating low-lying and coastal areas around the world", Kurtz decided to consider just how the rising sea levels might affect fiction for the people of tomorrow. "Since we at Melville House only publish those books that will surely be read 200 years from now … it leads to the question: which of our books will have their settings so dramatically erased by rising jellyfish-thick coral-less seas that future readers will not be able to visit their settings? Which of our books may as well be set on Atlantis?" he asks.
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yLives, marketing manager Dustin Kurtz is asking an intriguing – and horribly depressing – question. "When the globe is hit with a 10ft rise in sea level, which of our books will suddenly become fantastic?"
Off the back of the two studies which earlier this week warned that the collapse of the western Antarctica ice sheet is already under way, and that it could "eventually cause up to four metres (13ft) of sea-level rise, devastating low-lying and coastal areas around the world", Kurtz decided to consider just how the rising sea levels might affect fiction for the people of tomorrow. "Since we at Melville House only publish those books that will surely be read 200 years from now … it leads to the question: which of our books will have their settings so dramatically erased by rising jellyfish-thick coral-less seas that future readers will not be able to visit their settings? Which of our books may as well be set on Atlantis?" he asks.
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