Below are an interesting excerpt from an interview of Kim Stanley Robinson, a Californian sustainability oriented science fiction writer, in Boom Magazine. Boom: But, as you’ve said, all of California in some ways has been terraformed. It’s not natural in the way we usually conceive of natural. Are we as gods, as Steward Brand famously proclaimed, […]
In an interview with Terry Bisson, science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson talks about the importance of writing about utopias: Terry Bisson: My favorite of that series is Pacific Edge, the utopia of the series. What’s yours? Are there any particular problems in writing a utopia? Kim Stanley Robinson: My favorite is The Gold Coast, […]
In the consulting company McKinsey’s magazine What Matters, science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson writes about climate change and post-capitalism in an article Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme: Capitalism evolved out of feudalism. Although the basis of power has changed from land to money and the system has become more mobile, the distribution […]
Geoff Manaugh recently interviewed ecological science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about ecology, architecture and socieities on BLDGBLOG. Manaugh writes: Robinson’s books are not only filled with descriptions of landscapes – whole planets, in fact, noted, sensed, and textured down to the chemistry of their soils and the currents in their seas – but they […]
World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 report is an interesting, but one eyed view of the global risk landscape. I think the main weakness is lack of consideration of how the financial, economic, and social systems that support the global elites at Davos are producing most of the risks that threaten those same systems. Some […]
Recently Resilience Alliance (RA) members and partners were asked “what are the best books that you have read in the past year”? Their book suggestions have been compiled into a four-page annotated booklist. The list of both fiction and non-fiction books includes many familiar titles as well as less-familiar but very intriguing books that have […]
Book reviewer Rick Kleffel has an audio report on US National Public Radio (NPR) on how science fiction writers, such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Michael Crichton, address global warming. Kleffel also has an interview will Bill McKibben (author of the End of Nature) about science fiction and climate change. There is another recent podcast […]
The Guardian on Sept 24th, has an article by Robert Macfarlane The burning question, which argues that writers can play a crucial role in helping us to imagine the impact of climate change, but to date there is a gap of literature on climate change that reduces the ability of people to envision possible futures […]
American ecological science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson recently talked to the Guardian about his new, near-future climate change novel 50 degrees below, which presents a scenario of future climate change, its impacts and humanity’s response. From the Guardian: Set in an America of the almost-now, Fifty Degrees Below (and the first volume of the trilogy, […]