A character who is trying to come to terms with her damaged life, and stumbles into a local mystery.ĪE: Is this story part of a larger universe, or is it stand-alone? A near future when global warming has altered the landscape and climate a narrative focusing on the ordinary lives of people and the accommodations and adaptations forced by ongoing changes. An intersection between post-industrial ruin and raw nature. It’s flat and bleak and full of bird life-a large part of it is a wildlife sanctuary. The area around the fort features marshes, lagoons, abandoned docks and flooded quarry workings (there’s a plant that processes sea-dredged aggregate behind it). It’s based on a couple of real places in the Thames estuary: Gravesend, a town some miles downstream of London, and Cliffe Fort, which hosts a free market in the story, a partly ruined artillery fort built in the 1860s a couple of miles further downstream.
Paul McAuley: Setting was the spark that came before story. In this interview, Paul McAuley discusses his interest in climate change, how he deals with writer’s block, and his upcoming novel about someone getting “caught up in his sister’s bad choices.” We’re excited to feature his novella “Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene” in our Īsimov’s Editor: How did this story germinate? Was there a spark of inspiration, or did it come to you slowly?
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