First published 2019
Reckoning 4 tackles environmental justice through the lens of city life. Guest editors Danika Dinsmore and Hugo-nominated Arkady Martine have gathered writers who examine how climate change reshapes urban spaces. The collection spans multiple forms: fiction that imagines altered cityscapes, poetry that captures environmental anxiety, essays that analyze our relationship with overheating metropolises, and visual art that documents transformation. Contributors include established voices like Fran Wilde and Leah Bobet alongside emerging writers. Each piece grapples with questions of survival, adaptation, and justice in a world where cities bear the brunt of environmental collapse. The anthology refuses easy answers, instead offering varied perspectives on how communities might endure when familiar urban systems fail.
Genres: fiction, science-fiction, environment, 21st-century, climate-change, activism
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, social-commentary
Setting: Cities
Period: 21st-Century
195 pages · Kindle Edition · Reckoning Press