speculative fiction Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/speculative-fiction/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:48:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 speculative fiction Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/speculative-fiction/ 32 32 184391167 Just Stories: How Speculative Fiction can Challenge Climate ApartheidNick Wood https://writersrebel.com/just-stories-how-speculative-fiction-can-challenge-climate-apartheid/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:00:55 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5158 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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]]> 5158 Science Fiction and the Power of StorytellingRoman Krznaric https://writersrebel.com/science-fiction-and-the-power-of-storytelling/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:00:12 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4912 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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