As mentioned in the previous post, this week we have some discussion of writing climate change fiction; and if, as Vandana Singh says in her final comment, it is "increasingly important to write about climate change as passionately and creatively...
In this week's issue, we have a climate change focus, with Vandana Singh's report from the Durban climate conference, and a round table on writing climate change with Julie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda Larke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana...
As has become traditional, the Arthur C Clarke Award has published the full list of works submitted for consideration by publishers, and are running a competition to guess the shortlist (winner to receive the six novels in question). The metric...
Lavie Tidhar continues his series of posts on contemporary sf writers with a look at China Mieville's Embassytown: What disappoints me – that vague sense of unease at the back of my neck, whispering as I read – is that...
Kit Whitfield on the first sentence of Nineteen Eighty-Four: With another writer, one might say the language was deceptively simple. With Orwell, the language is vehemently simple, ideologically simple, a declaration of war against obfuscation and half-truth. Language and speech...
