Abstract
Speculating about future based on the present, climate change fiction (cli-fi) seems to have proved its unique potential to predict the environmental and social repercussions of the forced anthropogenic transformation(s) on Earth. As a cli-fi and horror novel, it is hardly a coincidence that the British author, Adam Nevill’s Lost Girl (2015) predicts no less with its haunting atmosphere. Envisioning a total collapse of the world through grim depictions of the nonhuman environment and restless societies, it recounts the dangerous quest of a father to find his lost daughter amidst (un)natural disasters, pandemics, and chaos. In the oddly realistic world of Lost Girl, originating from extreme weather conditions and the loss of natural balance, new strains of deadly viruses take hold of the world. Prophesying the coronavirus pandemic and other calamities that actually came out to be true five years later, in 2020; such as the destructive wildfires in Australia or the heatwaves in Europe among others, Lost Girl is a noteworthy cli-fi novel with its realistic touch leaving a permanent wake-up call effect on the reader to change their anthropocentric way of living through a posthuman perspective.
Highlights
The seventh novel by British author Adam Nevill, Lost Girl (2015), is a pre-apocalyptic climate fiction novel which focuses on the horror of environmental transformations in “a nightmarish near future crippled by global warming and over population” (Kitching, 2015)
108 Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies as a counteraction for centuries-long human ignorance and multifaceted negative impacts, Paul Crutzen reminds of various positive developments during the Anthropocene, which can only be achieved through constructive human interference: Hopefully, in the future, the “Anthropocene” will be characterised by continued human plundering of Earth’s resources and dumping of excessive amounts of waste products in the environment, and by vastly improved technology and management, wise use of Earth’s resources, control of human and domestic animal population, and overall careful manipulation and restoration of the natural environment. (2006, p. 17)
Lost Girl by the British horror novelist, Adam Nevill, stands out as a pre-apocalyptic climate change novel with horror qualities narrating the formidable quest of a father in the horrible atmosphere of the deranged near-future world
Summary
Sars COV11 and Other Calamities in...The seventh novel by British author Adam Nevill, Lost Girl (2015), is a pre-apocalyptic climate fiction novel which focuses on the horror of environmental transformations in “a nightmarish near future crippled by global warming and over population” (Kitching, 2015). Set in the near future and speculating about the fundamental horror of the human species about their survival and fear of a father about his daughter, Lost Girl stands out as a “climate-dystopia” and “climate change novel” (Agranoff, 2017) ornamented with horror fiction qualities.
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