I thought you might be interested in reading this interview with climate fiction superstar Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the “Mars Trilogy” and the “Science in the Capital” trilogy. Robinson throws some serious shade at Ghosh’s argument about the “outhouse” of science fiction v. the “mansion” of the “serious” or “literary” novel:

Kim Stanley Robinson: We Need Democratic Socialism

Utopian thinking gets a pretty bad name. But for author Kim Stanley Robinson, we should resist the idea we’re simply doomed to climate disaster – and insist that there is a world beyond capitalism.

We should be reading Robinson, but his books are very long, so they got cut from this syllabus!