Blackfish City

2018 Miller, Sam J[oshua] (b. 1979). Blackfish City. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins. Originated in the story “Calved.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 39.9 (476) (September 2015): 53-61. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 228-37 with an editor’s note on 228; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 249-62. An audiobook is narrated by Vikas Adam. Np: Harper Audio and Blackstone Audio, 2018. Public

The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia in which sea level rises have forced most of the remaining world’s population to live on massive platforms in the oceans. It is presented through four main characters living on one called Qaanaaq east of Greenland and north of Iceland plus a text something like a blog that appears throughout the book. Qaanaaq is controlled by AI’s that make most of the decisions and function as a government. The gay author works as a community organizer for Picture the Homeless (PTH), a homeless-led organization in New York City founded by two homeless men in 1999.