Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Predicted the World We Live In - The New York Times
A profile of the life and work of the brilliant Octavia E. Butler.
The campaign to restore out-of-print pulp sci-fi books in electronic formats.
A profile of the life and work of the brilliant Octavia E. Butler.
A century of sci-fi book covers.
The best climate fiction can do more than spur us to action to save the world we have — it can help us conceptualize the worlds, both beautiful and dire, that may lie ahead. These stories can be maps to the future, tools for understanding the complex systems that intertwine with the changing climates to come.
Here’s the video of the talk I gave on Wednesday evening all about my relationship with reading science fiction. There are handy chapter markers if you want to jump around.
A fascinating crowdsourced project. You can read the backstory in this article in Wired magazine.
I’ve published the transcript of my sci-fi talk.