California Dystopia: Understanding Climate Change and Social Collapse through Science Fiction
Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 3550 Trousdale Parkway,, Los Angeles, CAIn the fall of 2020, when wildfires turned the once-blue skies of California into a glowing orange hellscape—all amid a viral pandemic marked by severe racial and social disparities and protests over police violence against communities of color—some of the darkest fiction about California’s future seemed especially prescient. Moderated by Los Angeles Times culture columnist …