“To Labor for the Hive”

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2024
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Grist/Imagine2200 2024
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Author: Jamie Liu
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The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help.

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January 20, 2024

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2024 Liu, Jamie. “To Labor for the Hive.” Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer. Grist/Imagine2200 2024 (January 20, 2024). https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-to-labor-for-the-hive/

The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help. First place prize winner in the Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Short Story Contest. Female author.

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First place prize winner in the Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Short Story Contest.

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Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer

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Female author