Tag: David Brin

• Cli-Fi: Fiction about climate change

  I have just discovered a new genre: cli-fi, or climate change fiction. Set in the present or near future, these novels imagine a changed world once the effects of climate change are really beginning to be felt. It’s not such a new genre to me, after all. I read David Brin’s Earth and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Forty Signs…

  Shannon Turlington

  November 14, 2014

  Reading

  Apocalyptic literature, Cli-Fi, Climate change, David Brin, David Mitchell, Earth, Forty Signs of Rain, Ian McEwan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Atwood, Michael Farris Smith, Oryx and Crake, Reading list, Rivers, Solar, The Bone Clocks

• On privacy…

  SHARING IS CARING. SECRETS ARE LIES. PRIVACY IS THEFT. —The Circle by Dave Eggers One of the ideas explored in Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle is the loss, and even voluntary relinquishing, of privacy in a world where everything is filmed and nothing is ever deleted. Considering the revelations this year about the NSA’s electronic snooping,…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 3, 2014

  Notebook

  Dave Eggers, David Brin, Facebook, facial recognition, Feed, Google, Information, MT Anderson, Privacy, technologies, The Circle