Alex Foster received his MFA from New York University, where he served as fiction editor of Washington Square Review. His short stories have appeared in Agni, The Common, The Evergreen Review, and elsewhere. Previously, he studied economics at the University of Chicago and conducted research for the U.S. government and for the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab in West Africa.
Circular Motion is his first novel.
At Electric Lit Foster tagged "eight pre-apocalyptic books ... set in the run-up to a particular apocalypse that only arrives near the end of the book, if ever." One title on the list:
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonRead about the other entries on the list.
Some earlier works of climate fiction by Kim Stanley Robinson depicted Earth in the post-apocalyptic distant future, flooded out or ravaged by mass extinction. The Ministry for the Future, in contrast, shows Earth as it is—or at least could be—today: imperiled by climate change and responding to that threat. Through bureaucracy, diplomacy, and direct action campaigns, Robinson’s characters address the looming prospect of climate apocalypse. Here is the most dismally realistic book on this list, and also the most hopeful.
--Marshal Zeringue
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