If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.
Best known for the Mars trilogy, Robinson is one of the greatest living science fiction writers. And in recent years, he's become the greatest writers of what people now call cli-fi — climate fiction. The nam ... Show More
Mar 2022
How science fiction can shape our reality | Your Undivided Attention
<p>The meta-crisis is so vast: climate change, exponential technology, addiction, polarization and more. How do we grasp it, let alone take steps to address it? One of the thinking tools we have at our disposal is science fiction. To the extent that we co-evolve with our stories, ... Show More
28m 14s
Jan 2022
94/ The Political Economy of Solarpunk w/ Andrew Dana Hudson
<p>This is a conversation with speculative fiction writer and sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson. His stories have appeared in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, Little Blue Marble, The New Accelerato ... Show More
1h 37m
Apr 2024
Dominic Boyer, "No More Fossils" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year (2023) from the University of Minnesota's "Forerunners" series. We talked at length about his book, its gestation in basic questio ... Show More
59m 18s
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bonjour,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bienvenue dans le <strong>Book Club de Gatemeri</strong>. Mon ambition avec le Book Club est de partager mon amour des livres avec vous. </span></p> <p><strong>Concrètement comment ça se pas ... Show More
