Stories of Resistance and Oppression:

Science Fiction and Climate Change

“…Elsewhere, however, freezing turns out to be significantly less plausible scientifically. So, when Paul H. Lovering's Earth grew cold in Amazing Stories Quarterly, it was because an 'ice nebula' had enveloped the solar system; when Bruno H. Buergel's did in Wonder Stories Quarterly, because it passed through a cosmic cloud that cut off solar radiation; when Henry J. Kostkos's did in Amazing Stories, a planetoid had stripped away the Earth's atmosphere; when Chan Corbett's did in Astounding Stories, the sun had simply cooled; as it did for Eando Binder, again in Astounding Stories (Lovering, 1929;Buergel, 1931;Kostkos, 1935;Corbett, 1935;Binder, 1937).…”