Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Blackfish City focuses on the disparity between the rich and the poor and the role businesses and institutions play in manipulating systematic power for profit. The city was created by a wealthy elite who had the means to establish this new society in the Arctic. One pocket of “civilization” that survives is Qaanaaq-an Arctic city where refugees from around the world have come, having escaped their flooded homelands. In Miller’s novel, much of the Earth has been swallowed by the oceans as a result of climate change. Miller‘s gripping science-fiction novel Blackfish City (2018). More specifically, Trump’s defense of his pandemic performance is analogous to the fictional justifications found in Sam J. In these times, literature echoes “reality” in uncanny ways. The economy is in free-fall, most people are sheltering in place to avoid the highly contagious COVID-19 virus, and our government is fumbling its response to effectively handle this crisis. Given the state of America in 2020, some days feel like we are stuck in the middle of a dystopian storyline.
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