Briefly Very Beautiful review: This sensational novel shows what climate fiction can be

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Briefly Very Beautiful
Roz Dineen

Climate fiction is, ahem, hot right now. But I am still not sure we know exactly what it is. Certain novels are so obviously about climate change that no one could argue with that classification. One example is Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, which reads like a non-fiction account of runaway climate change in…