“Checkerboard”
| Title | “Checkerboard” |
| Year for Search | 2022 |
| Authors | Dyer, Thoraiya |
| Secondary Authors | Chrulew, Matthew |
| Secondary Title | Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures. |
| Pagination | 348-382 |
| Date Published | 2022 |
| Publisher | Twelfth Planet Press |
| Place Published | ([Yokine, WA, Australia] |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-922101-73-0 |
| Keywords | Australian author, Female author |
| Annotation | Climate change dystopia in which the heat is so intolerable that “Birds dropped dead from the skies. Old people dropped dead in the streets” (349). But the rich in what are called shadowhouses, while the poor lived wherever they could survive. The story follows a number of characters from the lower classes as they make do and try to bring about change. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The Australian female author, who is best known for her fantasy novels, is a veterinarian. |
| Full Text | 2022 Dyer, Thoraiya. “Checkerboard.” Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures. Ed. Matthew Chrulew ([Yokine, WA, Australia]: Twelfth Planet Press, 2022), 348-382. PSt Climate change dystopia in which the heat is so intolerable that “Birds dropped dead from the skies. Old people dropped dead in the streets” (349). But the rich in what are called shadowhouses, while the poor lived wherever they could survive. The story follows a number of characters from the lower classes as they make do and try to bring about change. The Australian female author, who is best known for her fantasy novels, is a veterinarian. |
