In Competition No. 3242, you were asked to submit a short story that is a mash-up of cli-fi with a genre of your choice.
In his 2016 book The Great Derangement, the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh questioned why ‘climate change cast a much smaller shadow on literature than it does on the world’.

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