Opinion | The Earth Is Just as Alive as You Are Scientists once ridiculed the idea of a living planet. Not anymore. Not SF as such, but good for thought experiments. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/sunday/amazon-earth-rain-forest-environment.html?action=%5B%27click%27%5D&module=%5B%27Opinion%27%5D&pgtype=%5B%27Homepage%27%5D
Category Archives: Climate
Helter Skelter | A Transdisciplinary Approach
Helter Skelter | A Transdisciplinary Approach In conversation with Vandana Singh about climate change, speculative fiction, semiotics, the nature of language, and her new book Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories. Vandana Singh! http://helterskelter.in/2019/04/interview-vandana-singh-ambiguity-machines/
8 Books to Help You Rebuild After an Ecological Catastrophe
8 Books to Help You Rebuild After an Ecological Catastrophe So you’ve lived through an ecological disaster that’s drastically changed the world (or at least some corner of it): the water’s dried up, the bees have disappeared, temperatures … https://www.tor.com/2019/02/26/8-books-to-help-you-rebuild-after-an-ecological-catastrophe/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D
A free book of science fiction from around the world about climate change, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson
A free book of science fiction from around the world about climate change, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson [Editor’s note: I’m a volunteer advisor to Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, and Joey Eschrich is a colleague of mine there; I invited him to writ… https://boingboing.net/2019/01/29/everything-changes.html
Why Science Fiction Authors Need to be Writing About Climate Change Right Now
Why Science Fiction Authors Need to be Writing About Climate Change Right Now The future is arriving sooner than most of us expected, and speculative fiction needs to do far more to help us prepare. The warning signs of catastrophic climate change are getting harder to ignor… https://www.tor.com/2019/01/22/why-science-fiction-authors-need-to-be-writing-about-climate-change-right-now/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D
How science fiction helps readers understand climate change
How science fiction helps readers understand climate change Can imagined futures of drowned cities and solar utopias help us grasp the complexity of climate change? Diego Arguedas Ortiz takes a look. Future NYC as SuperVenice:
Five Classic SF Novels of Anthropogenic Climate Change
Five Classic SF Novels of Anthropogenic Climate Change Climate-focused science fiction is not a recent development. Even if we were to reject all the works in which climate change is an unexpected benefit of thermonuclear war , or where the climate cha… https://www.tor.com/2018/12/19/five-classic-sf-novels-of-anthropogenic-climate-change/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D
What would it take to green the red planet?
What would it take to green the red planet? For starters, a massive amount of global warming. Short article from National Geographic about terraforming Mars. The ideas seem cool (too cool to be true?) I just wish the timeline was shorter.