Tag: Climate dystopia
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Review: The Peripheral
In case it’s not obvious, William Gibson is one of my favorite authors. Coming off the excellent “Blue Ant” trilogy, we had to wait only a few years for The Peripheral, published in 2014. That wouldn’t be the case for the followup, Agency, but that’s another review. The Peripheral divides its story into two futuristic…
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Rereading: Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Science in the Capital’ trilogy
With the impacts of climate change crashing down upon us daily, I have been thinking a lot about the prescient trilogy written by Kim Stanley Robinson almost 20 years ago. Known as the “Science in the Capital” trilogy, it comprises Forty Signs of Rain (2004), Fifty Degrees Below (2005), and Sixty Days and Counting (2007).…
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Review: The Last Wild Horses
There have been a couple of sci-fi books involving horses lately. I was recommended Maja Lunde’s The Last Wild Horses and it did not disappoint. The Norwegian author is best known for her first book, The History of Bees, which won numerous awards. Here she is again telling three separate but interrelated stories, each taking…