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Just Stories: How Speculative Fiction can Challenge Climate ApartheidNick Wood

Nick Wood — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:00:55 +0000

Speculative Fiction (SF) models potential scenarios for the future of humanity by proposing alternative visions of the future that evoke different ways of inhabiting the world. But such templates can threaten the status quo: during apartheid in South Africa, several SF novels were banned, and the current right-wing book-bans in the United States show that [...]

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Q&A with Roman KrznaricLiz Jensen

Liz Jensen — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:00:28 +0000

Political thinker and philosopher Roman Krznaric is interviewed by Writers Rebel’s Liz Jensen. Roman shares an excerpt from his latest book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World, here. Liz Jensen: The title of your book is taken from a quotation by the medical researcher Jonas Salk, [...]

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Science Fiction and the Power of StorytellingRoman Krznaric

Roman Krznaric — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:00:12 +0000

This week we share an extract from Roman Krznaric’s new book The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World. Read his interview with Writer’s Rebel’s Liz Jensen here. While the time rebellion in politics and economics has only developed since the 1970s, novelists and film makers have been extending our [...]

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Q&A with Kim Stanley RobinsonLiz Jensen

Kim Stanley Robinson — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:00:21 +0000

Kim Stanley Robinson is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost science fiction writers. He has received both the Robert A. Heinlein Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society for his body of work, which includes the Mars trilogy, the Science in the City trilogy, and [...]

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Q&A with Laura Jean McKayLaura Jean McKay

Laura Jean McKay — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 08:00:04 +0000

Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country, which in her home of Australia won the 2021 Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. The novel then won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award Science Fiction Book of the Year. Here she discusses with Alex Lockwood [...]

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Where the River Runs Gold | Sita Brahmachari

Katie Percival — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:55:37 +0000

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