Note by Johnathan Reid on Substack: "For some time now I've been wrestling with finding a progressive ‘middle way’ that can successfully embrace my overly pessimistic dystopian viewpoint with the sometimes naïve utopias painted so well by writers like @Elle Griffin. Today I saw a word whose less negative ethos I be…"

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For some time now I've been wrestling with finding a progressive ‘middle way’ that can successfully embrace my overly pessimistic dystopian viewpoint with the sometimes naïve utopias painted so well by writers like

Elle Griffin

. Today I saw a word whose less negative ethos I believe I can embrace personally and also within my novels. The word is ‘thrutopia’. I think it's a good word to both foster hope and forge a believable future.

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On Writing the Unthinkable - Writers Rebel

In your 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable you take contemporary literature to task for failing to address the climate and ecological crisis. Have fiction writers woken up since then – and if so, what are the most important changes you’ve seen in the literary lands…

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