By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
Thomas Huxley said that "it is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." It is a sentence that describes the cycle of ideas, -- call them memes -- which tend to have a life-cycle similar to that of living creatures. They are born, grow, and disappear.
By Vicki Robin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Resilience.org
Kim Stanley Robinson is widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. From his perspective, he answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Loosely based on an eponymous 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation centers around a journey to the heart of an anomalous region known as Area X on America’s southern coast.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
As its name alludes, this visionary new fiction quarterly seeks to challenge our current mental maps of the future.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
10 Billion vividly reimagines Greer’s blog post as a graphic novel. Told and illustrated in an immersive comic book style, it gives potent visual form to the original text.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
How will future generations fare in the world of scarcity and instability to which our present-day actions are consigning them? Catherine McGuire’s short story collection The Dream Hunt and Other Tales suggests a multitude of possible answers to this.
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
Doomer porn has limited appeal and shelf life; you can only get so miserable before there’s nowhere to go and no point. One of the most appealing subsets of speculative fiction, then, is what we might call the “good old future,” where our descendants have come through a crisis and created a better world that looks a lot like the past.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The novel has essentially the same premise as the hit disaster movie from five years earlier, The Day After Tomorrow. The Gulf Stream ocean current, which has long played a crucial role in our planet's climate system, undergoes a sudden collapse driven primarily by human-caused global warming. Ice caps rapidly spread across the northern hemisphere, rendering places like New York City and western and northern Europe uninhabitable to all but the most rugged survivalists.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
If you're in the mood for some good deindustrial fiction, I recommend checking out these books by Ann M. Pino.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The science fiction noir thriller, "The Expanse," has a lot to say about systemic risks in society and about what not to do about them.
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
If you think there is hope for a decent future -- and I do -- then make that future come alive for your family and friends. I ask only two things: that it shows a realistic future, and that it be fun.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Syfy channel's political/military thriller "The Expanse," set hundreds of years in the future, seems eerily resonant with our own era. The two major powers of the solar system, Earth and Mars, have been locked in a cold war for decades. Exploited populations working and living in the asteroid belt--an area that supplies crucial raw materials to both empires--become the flashpoint for what could turn out to be a civilization-destroying hot war between the two imperial powers.