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Time Is Running Out for the Planet
Time Is Running Out for the Planet Bill Moyers talks with Bill McKibben about his new novel Radio Free Vermont and the nonfiction ways to fight the system. Environmental activists in kayaks protest the arrival of the Polar Pioneer, an oil drilling rig owned by Shell Oil, in Seattle. The rig is part of a […]
Fake News: Newsweek Admits They Didn’t Write Or Even Read “Madam President” Issue
Fake News: Newsweek Admits They Didn’t Write Or Even Read “Madam President” Issue Newsweek’s political editor, Matthew Cooper, looked as though he’d had a rough month when he appeared on the Tucker Carlson show last night to discuss the “Madam President” debacle. While the printing and distribution of the erroneous “commemorative edition” magazine was embarrassing enough, Cooper […]
Retrotopia: The Cloud that Hides the Future
Retrotopia: The Cloud that Hides the Future This is the twenty-fifth and last installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator spends his last few hours in the Lakeland Republic, finds an answer to a question that has been bothering him, […]
Retrotopia: The Only Way Forward
Retrotopia: The Only Way Forward This is the twenty-fourth (and next to last) installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. At a final meeting between our narrator and Isaiah Meeker, President of the Lakeland Republic, certain unstated agendas are revealed and the […]
Retrotopia: Diminishing Returns
Retrotopia: Diminishing Returns This is the nineteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator, forced to grapple with the cognitive dissonance between everything he believes about progress and the facts of life in the Lakeland Republic, tries to evade the […]
Retrotopia: The Far Side of Progress
Retrotopia: The Far Side of Progress I got lunch at the little café across the street from the Capitol, and then went to talk to Melanie Berger and a dozen other people from Meeker’s staff. We had a lot of ground to cover and I’d lost two and a half days to the flu, so we […]
Retrotopia: A Distant Scent of Blood
Retrotopia: A Distant Scent of Blood This is the sixteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator, having recovered from a bout of the flu, goes for a walk, meets someone he’s encountered before, and begins to understand why the […]
Dystopian Fiction of Yesterday is the NWO of Tomorrow: “The Shift is Toward Totalitarianism”
Dystopian Fiction of Yesterday is the NWO of Tomorrow: “The Shift is Toward Totalitarianism” Many of the things that are happening this very moment have direct parallels in literature of the past. Whether it is an account such as the “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn or a work of “fiction” such as “1984” by George Orwell […]
Retrotopia: Back To What Worked
Retrotopia: Back To What Worked This is the fifteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator visits another school, catches the flu, and has his first encounter with the Lakeland Republic’s health care system… *********** I made some phone calls […]
Retrotopia: Lines of Separation
Retrotopia: Lines of Separation This is the fourteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator returns from his trip to a tier one county full of doubts about the Lakeland Republic’s prospects, and has those at once challenged and sharpened […]
Retrotopia: Learning Lessons
Retrotopia: Learning Lessons This is the thirteennth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator finishes up his trip to a tier one county, and starts to notice ways in which the Lakeland Republic has gone neither forwards nor backwards, but […]
Retrotopia: Neglected Technologies
Retrotopia: Neglected Technologies This is the twelfth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator attends the Lakeland Republic’s annual drone shoot, and finds out that not all technological innovations start out from the current state of the art… *********** A […]
A Cli-Fi Story: Winter Solstice in Antarctica
A Cli-Fi Story: Winter Solstice in Antarctica Antarctica deglaciated and uplifted, as it could appear ten thousand years after the Great Warming of the 21st century (from global warming art). The text below is part of my cli-fi novel “Queen of Antarctica” that one of these days I might be able to publish, somewhere. The novel […]
Cli-fi is all the rage
Cli-fi is all the rage The Four Horsemen: Eco-apocalypse appeals to writers – and readers. Image: Viktor M Vasnetsov via Wikimedia Commons Need a last-minute present? Stuck for some new year reading material? Then how about a thriller on a world in climate-caused turmoil? LONDON, 26 December, 2015 – It’s some time in the not too distant future. […]
Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple
Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple This is the eleventh installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator ventures out of Toledo into a tier one rural county and sees one of the alternative cultures taking shape in the Lakeland Republic. […]
