As someone who went to a Quaker high school, I am delighted to see a novel about Quakers in space!
“Leaving a dilapidated Earth behind, Quakers across the globe pool funds and resources as they select colonists to send to a newly discovered planet to start life anew in this “miraculous fusion of…science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology” (Ursula K. Le Guin).”
See This Russian Artist’s Dark Vision of How Pollution Is Destroying Our Planet, Now on View in Venice | artnet News “Vasily Klyukin: In Dante Veritas,” presented by the State Russian Museum, is on view in Venice during the Venice Biennale. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/see-this-russian-artists-dark-vision-of-how-pollution-is-destroying-our-planet-1550710
JAMES OLIVER: The secrets of Soviet sci-fi As two classic movies are released on DVD, JAMES OLIVER takes a turn through the strange world of communist science fiction and finds it every bit as political as its western counterpart. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/secrets-of-soviet-sci-fi-james-oliver-1-6079659
Is Climate Fiction a Subset of Science Fiction—or Something Else Entirely? A new novel imagines what life in Bangkok would be like if nearly half the city were underwater—which some experts say is a real possibility. “Cli-fi” (Thailand) https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/climate-fiction-subset-science-fiction-or-something-else-entirely
Waste Tide is a chilling sci-fi novel about class war and trash in near-future China And the people the world’s economy leaves behind https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/25/18626394/waste-tide-chen-qiufan-chinese-scifi-science-fiction-class-war-book-review
Swedes in space | Spectator USA About halfway through the Swedish space saga Aniara, I realized that there is no future. Or at least no alternative future… https://spectator.us/swedes-in-space/
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Pioneer of Bengali science fiction Adrish Bardhan no more Kolkata: Adrish Bardhan, science fiction writer, translator and editor died at the age of 87 at the Nilratana Sarkar Medical College and Hospital on Monday night.He was suffering from age-related… http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/pioneer-of-bengali-science-fiction-adrish-bardhan-no-more-354130