"Serf"
| Title | "Serf" |
| Year for Search | 2020 |
| Authors | Thompson, Talia |
| Secondary Authors | Mountfort, Paul, and Prosser, Rosslyn |
| Secondary Title | Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology |
| Pagination | 190-205 |
| Date Published | 2020 |
| Publisher | Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing |
| Place Published | Auckland, New Zealand |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-99-000062-1 |
| Keywords | Aotearoa New Zealand author, Female author, Queer author |
| Annotation | The story begins in 2106 with a woman on a crowded Auckland Skytrain from the domed area where she works to the polluted exterior where she lives, and then shifts to 2036 and her grandmother growing up on Beqa in the Fiji islands, which is about the disappear under the rising waters. The story then follows her family as refugees as conditions worsen and world-wide climate refugees outnumber those with land and her treatment as a brown woman working two minimum wage jobs as a serf (server). |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The Aotearoa New Zealand queer feminist author is of Fijian, Tongan, and Pākehā descent. She holds a doctorate in Sociology and in 2022 held a Spinoff cadetship for developing feature writers. |
| Full Text | 2020 Thompson, Tulia. “Serf.” Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology. Ed. Paul Mountfort and Rosslyn Prosser (Auckland, New Zealand: Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing, 2020), 190-205. PSt The story begins in 2106 with a woman on a crowded Auckland Skytrain from the domed area where she works to the polluted exterior where she lives, and then shifts to 2036 and her grandmother growing up on Beqa in the Fiji islands, which is about the disappear under the rising waters. The story then follows her family as refugees as conditions worsen and world-wide climate refugees outnumber those with land and her treatment as a brown woman working two minimum wage jobs as a serf (server). The Aotearoa New Zealand queer feminist author is of Fijian, Tongan, and Pākehā descent. She holds a doctorate in Sociology and in 2022 held a Spinoff cadetship for developing feature writers. The book includes a Glossary (270-276). |
