*****Ghosh beats you to it by addressing the problematic banishment of science fiction to “generic outhouses”.****

“Uncanny” is often the word used to describe weather events or ­environmental catastrophes in our time, and Ghosh argues that “their uncanniness lies precisely in the fact that in these encounters we recognise something we had turned away from: that is to say, the presence and proximity of non-human interlocutors”. This idea is unsurprising to anyone who has read, say, Solaris, *****or the more recent Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer******, but Ghosh’s motives and destination are different. Just when you’re starting to think, “Hang on – science fiction has been dealing in one way or another with climate change, and with sentient non-human forces, for several decades now,” *****Ghosh beats you to it by addressing the problematic banishment of science fiction to “generic outhouses”.****

​from THE NEW STATESMAN in the UK review by Neel Mukherjee, friend of GHOSH of course

*****Ghosh beats you to it by addressing the problematic banishment of science fiction to “generic outhouses”.****

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/energy/2016/10/what-melting-sea-ice-means-future-earth