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Friday, August 14 2020

• Apocalypse Now August 14, 2020

  Science fiction has always been an outlet for our greatest anxieties. How the genre is exploring the reality of climate change. Plus: new words to describe the indescribable.&nbsp; (episode)

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  • When Science Fiction Isn't Fiction August 14, 2020

    Author Jeff VanderMeer has been called the "weird Thoreau" for his nature-inspired science fiction. But what's sci-fi when the future of the planet is unpredictable?

  • The Desert Reasserts Itself August 14, 2020

    In a novel by Claire Vaye Watkins, a growing sand dune is threatening the Southwest. What can we learn from it?

  • Kim Stanley Robinson on Our Future Cities August 14, 2020

    How we're currently "living in a science fiction story we're writing together."

  • "Solastalgia," and Other Words for Our Changing World August 14, 2020

    The distress caused by environmental change needs its own term, and so do other new phenomena in the Anthropocene.