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Friday, November 24 2017

• Apocalypse, Now November 24, 2017

  Science fiction has always been an outlet for our greatest anxieties. Here's 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 November 24, 2017

    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 November 24, 2017

    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 November 24, 2017

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

  • "Solastalgia," and Other Words for Our Changing World November 24, 2017

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