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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 … Continue reading Cli-Fi: Fiction about climate change

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November 14, 2014May 4, 2015Apocalyptic 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 Clocks1 Comment
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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, … Continue reading On privacy…

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January 3, 2014October 19, 2014Dave Eggers, David Brin, Facebook, facial recognition, Feed, Google, Information, MT Anderson, Privacy, technologies, The CircleLeave a comment

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