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Any Human PowerManda Scott

Manda Scott — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 07:00:47 +0000

You think that the dead watch over you all the time, that whenever you pick your nose, or lose it with the kids and shout something you know you’ll regret, we’re hovering at attic height, being silently, ostentatiously (and hypocritically) censorious. You think that as soon as we die, we’re cleansed of all that [...]

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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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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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