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  1. Today Only! Slow River = $1.99!

    Slow River is on sale today for $1.99 (ebook, North America, all platforms). Today only. This is the cheapest it’s been for (literally) decades. You should go buy it.

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    Why should you buy it? Three reasons. But let’s start with two.

    First, most obviously: why not? For that price you can’t even get a cup of coffee. Two, less obviously—much less so for those wo haven’t read it but may have seen it described as something like, “The best-ever novel of sewage and abuse”—this the book of mine that’s come closest (so far) to being turned into a film. Why? Because it’s highly cinematic, and in three different modes. This is because the novel itself is told in three different points-of-view and timelines, each with a different but strong visual and emotional focus.

    What It’s About

    Here’s the back cover copy:

    She wakes in an alley to the splash of rain: naked, the foot-long gash in her back still bleeding, and her identity implant gone. Lore Van de Oest, once the daughter of one of the world’s most powerful families, is now…nobody. And she has to hide.
         Then out of the rain walks Spanner, predator and thief, who takes her in, cares for her wound, and teaches her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one can find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who left her in that alley to die. She has escaped…but the cost of her newfound freedom is crime and deception, and she pays it, over and over, until she starts to loathe who she’s becoming.
         Lore has a choice: She can stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner, and risk losing herself forever. Or she can find herself again—but only by becoming someone else, one last time.  

    Bright Young Things

    The present-tense layer, Lore from age 5 to 18, is all brightly-lit, hot tropical colours under saturated blue skies. Settings range from a private island in the South Pacific to high-tech luxury playgrounds for the rich (one of my favourite scenes: two women swimming naked in pink perfluorocarbon—basically breathing liquid—and having great sex) to massive engineering projects such as the 60m high heliostats cascading with water and the 100-km long transparent pipelines raised on pylons running over the Aralkum Desert (both designed to remediate pollution) and to the stolid, dark wood interiors with rich fabrics of moneyed-for-generations homes in Amsterdam.

    Shadowed Streets

    The past-tense third-person layer, which follows Lore from 18 to 21, is much more noirish, stylistically. It is set in a poor northern city (Hull) with an ancient heart. Here in its streets at night Lore has to confront the realities of surviving as part of the anonymous underclass. She moves through the seams of society and does things she is not proud of. The flashing lights of a news tank reflect on rain-wet streets; brittle cocktail-party laughter echoes around shiny, soulless bars while hidden from sight there are drug deals for sex and sex for drugs until as the grey northern skies start to lighten towards dawn and the workers climb into their silent sliding public transport, no one knows anymore which is which. And through it all, that river…

    Coming into Focus

    The third layer—the main layer, the narrative present—is Lore reassessing everything and deciding to start afresh under a new identity without Spanner, and with honest employment: as a grunt in the kind of water treatment plant even one of her family’s underlings would have found beneath their notice. Except as a source of revenue—because Lore’s family owns the patent not only on the genetically modified microbes that transform sewage into potable water but on the necessary cocktail of nutrients the family deliberately engineered those microbes to need. But what do you suppose happens when some low-level manager at the city waterworks decides he can make a little extra by buying off-brand supplies? And how can a supposedly brand-new nobody of an employee make people believe what’s about to go horribly, disastrously wrong without revealing who she really is?

    Hope, Hope, and More Hope

    All that, of course, is just the plot. The real story is Lore’s journey, emotional and physical, as she goes through a series of identity changes, some out of necessity, some from choice.

    Writing this novel was a challenge—and I’m not talking of the technical poetics of how to blend three same-but-different POVs and timelines (which I address in the bonus essay in the new edition). No. I’m talking about this second and third layer, set in a run-down city in a poor region of a poor country suffering the worst of twentieth-turned-to-twenty-first century decaying infrastructure, weaponised web, massive unemployment, and widening income disparity. How do you infuse that urban and moral blight with joy and hope—joy and hope that isn’t delusional but feels solid and grounded? That was the challenge.

    And that, dear reader, is why I think this novel is just as, if not even more, relevant today that it was when I wrote it. Lore—like me and many others here in 2026—finds hope and joy, comfort and delight in the small moments: the sudden sun-yellow weed in an acre of crumbling pavement; the bright fluting of bird on the roof; the simple wonder of watching dried soybean uncurl and expand in boiling water, like watching small worlds being born. It’s the little things that matter, and they’re all around us, no matter how bad things may seem.

    Oh, and spoiler alert: this story ends well. Just as I suspect our story will, sooner or later.

    Buy

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    #awardWinning #books #cliFi #sale #SFF #slowRiver
  2. Today Only! Slow River = $1.99!

    Slow River is on sale today for $1.99 (ebook, North America, all platforms). Today only. This is the cheapest it’s been for (literally) decades. You should go buy it.

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    Why should you buy it? Three reasons. But let’s start with two.

    First, most obviously: why not? For that price you can’t even get a cup of coffee. Two, less obviously—much less so for those wo haven’t read it but may have seen it described as something like, “The best-ever novel of sewage and abuse”—this the book of mine that’s come closest (so far) to being turned into a film. Why? Because it’s highly cinematic, and in three different modes. This is because the novel itself is told in three different points-of-view and timelines, each with a different but strong visual and emotional focus.

    What It’s About

    Here’s the back cover copy:

    She wakes in an alley to the splash of rain: naked, the foot-long gash in her back still bleeding, and her identity implant gone. Lore Van de Oest, once the daughter of one of the world’s most powerful families, is now…nobody. And she has to hide.
         Then out of the rain walks Spanner, predator and thief, who takes her in, cares for her wound, and teaches her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one can find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who left her in that alley to die. She has escaped…but the cost of her newfound freedom is crime and deception, and she pays it, over and over, until she starts to loathe who she’s becoming.
         Lore has a choice: She can stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner, and risk losing herself forever. Or she can find herself again—but only by becoming someone else, one last time.  

    Bright Young Things

    The present-tense layer, Lore from age 5 to 18, is all brightly-lit, hot tropical colours under saturated blue skies. Settings range from a private island in the South Pacific to high-tech luxury playgrounds for the rich (one of my favourite scenes: two women swimming naked in pink perfluorocarbon—basically breathing liquid—and having great sex) to massive engineering projects such as the 60m high heliostats cascading with water and the 100-km long transparent pipelines raised on pylons running over the Aralkum Desert (both designed to remediate pollution) and to the stolid, dark wood interiors with rich fabrics of moneyed-for-generations homes in Amsterdam.

    Shadowed Streets

    The past-tense third-person layer, which follows Lore from 18 to 21, is much more noirish, stylistically. It is set in a poor northern city (Hull) with an ancient heart. Here in its streets at night Lore has to confront the realities of surviving as part of the anonymous underclass. She moves through the seams of society and does things she is not proud of. The flashing lights of a news tank reflect on rain-wet streets; brittle cocktail-party laughter echoes around shiny, soulless bars while hidden from sight there are drug deals for sex and sex for drugs until as the grey northern skies start to lighten towards dawn and the workers climb into their silent sliding public transport, no one knows anymore which is which. And through it all, that river…

    Coming into Focus

    The third layer—the main layer, the narrative present—is Lore reassessing everything and deciding to start afresh under a new identity without Spanner, and with honest employment: as a grunt in the kind of water treatment plant even one of her family’s underlings would have found beneath their notice. Except as a source of revenue—because Lore’s family owns the patent not only on the genetically modified microbes that transform sewage into potable water but on the necessary cocktail of nutrients the family deliberately engineered those microbes to need. But what do you suppose happens when some low-level manager at the city waterworks decides he can make a little extra by buying off-brand supplies? And how can a supposedly brand-new nobody of an employee make people believe what’s about to go horribly, disastrously wrong without revealing who she really is?

    Hope, Hope, and More Hope

    All that, of course, is just the plot. The real story is Lore’s journey, emotional and physical, as she goes through a series of identity changes, some out of necessity, some from choice.

    Writing this novel was a challenge—and I’m not talking of the technical poetics of how to blend three same-but-different POVs and timelines (which I address in the bonus essay in the new edition). No. I’m talking about this second and third layer, set in a run-down city in a poor region of a poor country suffering the worst of twentieth-turned-to-twenty-first century decaying infrastructure, weaponised web, massive unemployment, and widening income disparity. How do you infuse that urban and moral blight with joy and hope—joy and hope that isn’t delusional but feels solid and grounded? That was the challenge.

    And that, dear reader, is why I think this novel is just as, if not even more, relevant today that it was when I wrote it. Lore—like me and many others here in 2026—finds hope and joy, comfort and delight in the small moments: the sudden sun-yellow weed in an acre of crumbling pavement; the bright fluting of bird on the roof; the simple wonder of watching dried soybean uncurl and expand in boiling water, like watching small worlds being born. It’s the little things that matter, and they’re all around us, no matter how bad things may seem.

    Oh, and spoiler alert: this story ends well. Just as I suspect our story will, sooner or later.

    Buy

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    #awardWinning #bookReview #bookReviews #books #cliFi #digitalImmigrant #fiction #sale #SFF #slowRiver
  3. Today Only! Slow River = $1.99!

    Slow River is on sale today for $1.99 (ebook, North America, all platforms). Today only. This is the cheapest it’s been for (literally) decades. You should go buy it.

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    Why should you buy it? Three reasons. But let’s start with two.

    First, most obviously: why not? For that price you can’t even get a cup of coffee. Two, less obviously—much less so for those wo haven’t read it but may have seen it described as something like, “The best-ever novel of sewage and abuse”—this the book of mine that’s come closest (so far) to being turned into a film. Why? Because it’s highly cinematic, and in three different modes. This is because the novel itself is told in three different points-of-view and timelines, each with a different but strong visual and emotional focus.

    What It’s About

    Here’s the back cover copy:

    She wakes in an alley to the splash of rain: naked, the foot-long gash in her back still bleeding, and her identity implant gone. Lore Van de Oest, once the daughter of one of the world’s most powerful families, is now…nobody. And she has to hide.
         Then out of the rain walks Spanner, predator and thief, who takes her in, cares for her wound, and teaches her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one can find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who left her in that alley to die. She has escaped…but the cost of her newfound freedom is crime and deception, and she pays it, over and over, until she starts to loathe who she’s becoming.
         Lore has a choice: She can stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner, and risk losing herself forever. Or she can find herself again—but only by becoming someone else, one last time.  

    Bright Young Things

    The present-tense layer, Lore from age 5 to 18, is all brightly-lit, hot tropical colours under saturated blue skies. Settings range from a private island in the South Pacific to high-tech luxury playgrounds for the rich (one of my favourite scenes: two women swimming naked in pink perfluorocarbon—basically breathing liquid—and having great sex) to massive engineering projects such as the 60m high heliostats cascading with water and the 100-km long transparent pipelines raised on pylons running over the Aralkum Desert (both designed to remediate pollution) and to the stolid, dark wood interiors with rich fabrics of moneyed-for-generations homes in Amsterdam.

    Shadowed Streets

    The past-tense third-person layer, which follows Lore from 18 to 21, is much more noirish, stylistically. It is set in a poor northern city (Hull) with an ancient heart. Here in its streets at night Lore has to confront the realities of surviving as part of the anonymous underclass. She moves through the seams of society and does things she is not proud of. The flashing lights of a news tank reflect on rain-wet streets; brittle cocktail-party laughter echoes around shiny, soulless bars while hidden from sight there are drug deals for sex and sex for drugs until as the grey northern skies start to lighten towards dawn and the workers climb into their silent sliding public transport, no one knows anymore which is which. And through it all, that river…

    Coming into Focus

    The third layer—the main layer, the narrative present—is Lore reassessing everything and deciding to start afresh under a new identity without Spanner, and with honest employment: as a grunt in the kind of water treatment plant even one of her family’s underlings would have found beneath their notice. Except as a source of revenue—because Lore’s family owns the patent not only on the genetically modified microbes that transform sewage into potable water but on the necessary cocktail of nutrients the family deliberately engineered those microbes to need. But what do you suppose happens when some low-level manager at the city waterworks decides he can make a little extra by buying off-brand supplies? And how can a supposedly brand-new nobody of an employee make people believe what’s about to go horribly, disastrously wrong without revealing who she really is?

    Hope, Hope, and More Hope

    All that, of course, is just the plot. The real story is Lore’s journey, emotional and physical, as she goes through a series of identity changes, some out of necessity, some from choice.

    Writing this novel was a challenge—and I’m not talking of the technical poetics of how to blend three same-but-different POVs and timelines (which I address in the bonus essay in the new edition). No. I’m talking about this second and third layer, set in a run-down city in a poor region of a poor country suffering the worst of twentieth-turned-to-twenty-first century decaying infrastructure, weaponised web, massive unemployment, and widening income disparity. How do you infuse that urban and moral blight with joy and hope—joy and hope that isn’t delusional but feels solid and grounded? That was the challenge.

    And that, dear reader, is why I think this novel is just as, if not even more, relevant today that it was when I wrote it. Lore—like me and many others here in 2026—finds hope and joy, comfort and delight in the small moments: the sudden sun-yellow weed in an acre of crumbling pavement; the bright fluting of bird on the roof; the simple wonder of watching dried soybean uncurl and expand in boiling water, like watching small worlds being born. It’s the little things that matter, and they’re all around us, no matter how bad things may seem.

    Oh, and spoiler alert: this story ends well. Just as I suspect our story will, sooner or later.

    Buy

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    #awardWinning #books #cliFi #sale #SFF #slowRiver
  4. Today Only! Slow River = $1.99!

    Slow River is on sale today for $1.99 (ebook, North America, all platforms). Today only. This is the cheapest it’s been for (literally) decades. You should go buy it.

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    Why should you buy it? Three reasons. But let’s start with two.

    First, most obviously: why not? For that price you can’t even get a cup of coffee. Two, less obviously—much less so for those wo haven’t read it but may have seen it described as something like, “The best-ever novel of sewage and abuse”—this the book of mine that’s come closest (so far) to being turned into a film. Why? Because it’s highly cinematic, and in three different modes. This is because the novel itself is told in three different points-of-view and timelines, each with a different but strong visual and emotional focus.

    What It’s About

    Here’s the back cover copy:

    She wakes in an alley to the splash of rain: naked, the foot-long gash in her back still bleeding, and her identity implant gone. Lore Van de Oest, once the daughter of one of the world’s most powerful families, is now…nobody. And she has to hide.
         Then out of the rain walks Spanner, predator and thief, who takes her in, cares for her wound, and teaches her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one can find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who left her in that alley to die. She has escaped…but the cost of her newfound freedom is crime and deception, and she pays it, over and over, until she starts to loathe who she’s becoming.
         Lore has a choice: She can stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner, and risk losing herself forever. Or she can find herself again—but only by becoming someone else, one last time.  

    Bright Young Things

    The present-tense layer, Lore from age 5 to 18, is all brightly-lit, hot tropical colours under saturated blue skies. Settings range from a private island in the South Pacific to high-tech luxury playgrounds for the rich (one of my favourite scenes: two women swimming naked in pink perfluorocarbon—basically breathing liquid—and having great sex) to massive engineering projects such as the 60m high heliostats cascading with water and the 100-km long transparent pipelines raised on pylons running over the Aralkum Desert (both designed to remediate pollution) and to the stolid, dark wood interiors with rich fabrics of moneyed-for-generations homes in Amsterdam.

    Shadowed Streets

    The past-tense third-person layer, which follows Lore from 18 to 21, is much more noirish, stylistically. It is set in a poor northern city (Hull) with an ancient heart. Here in its streets at night Lore has to confront the realities of surviving as part of the anonymous underclass. She moves through the seams of society and does things she is not proud of. The flashing lights of a news tank reflect on rain-wet streets; brittle cocktail-party laughter echoes around shiny, soulless bars while hidden from sight there are drug deals for sex and sex for drugs until as the grey northern skies start to lighten towards dawn and the workers climb into their silent sliding public transport, no one knows anymore which is which. And through it all, that river…

    Coming into Focus

    The third layer—the main layer, the narrative present—is Lore reassessing everything and deciding to start afresh under a new identity without Spanner, and with honest employment: as a grunt in the kind of water treatment plant even one of her family’s underlings would have found beneath their notice. Except as a source of revenue—because Lore’s family owns the patent not only on the genetically modified microbes that transform sewage into potable water but on the necessary cocktail of nutrients the family deliberately engineered those microbes to need. But what do you suppose happens when some low-level manager at the city waterworks decides he can make a little extra by buying off-brand supplies? And how can a supposedly brand-new nobody of an employee make people believe what’s about to go horribly, disastrously wrong without revealing who she really is?

    Hope, Hope, and More Hope

    All that, of course, is just the plot. The real story is Lore’s journey, emotional and physical, as she goes through a series of identity changes, some out of necessity, some from choice.

    Writing this novel was a challenge—and I’m not talking of the technical poetics of how to blend three same-but-different POVs and timelines (which I address in the bonus essay in the new edition). No. I’m talking about this second and third layer, set in a run-down city in a poor region of a poor country suffering the worst of twentieth-turned-to-twenty-first century decaying infrastructure, weaponised web, massive unemployment, and widening income disparity. How do you infuse that urban and moral blight with joy and hope—joy and hope that isn’t delusional but feels solid and grounded? That was the challenge.

    And that, dear reader, is why I think this novel is just as, if not even more, relevant today that it was when I wrote it. Lore—like me and many others here in 2026—finds hope and joy, comfort and delight in the small moments: the sudden sun-yellow weed in an acre of crumbling pavement; the bright fluting of bird on the roof; the simple wonder of watching dried soybean uncurl and expand in boiling water, like watching small worlds being born. It’s the little things that matter, and they’re all around us, no matter how bad things may seem.

    Oh, and spoiler alert: this story ends well. Just as I suspect our story will, sooner or later.

    Buy

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    #awardWinning #books #cliFi #sale #SFF #slowRiver
  5. Today Only! Slow River = $1.99!

    Slow River is on sale today for $1.99 (ebook, North America, all platforms). Today only. This is the cheapest it’s been for (literally) decades. You should go buy it.

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    Why should you buy it? Three reasons. But let’s start with two.

    First, most obviously: why not? For that price you can’t even get a cup of coffee. Two, less obviously—much less so for those wo haven’t read it but may have seen it described as something like, “The best-ever novel of sewage and abuse”—this the book of mine that’s come closest (so far) to being turned into a film. Why? Because it’s highly cinematic, and in three different modes. This is because the novel itself is told in three different points-of-view and timelines, each with a different but strong visual and emotional focus.

    What It’s About

    Here’s the back cover copy:

    She wakes in an alley to the splash of rain: naked, the foot-long gash in her back still bleeding, and her identity implant gone. Lore Van de Oest, once the daughter of one of the world’s most powerful families, is now…nobody. And she has to hide.
         Then out of the rain walks Spanner, predator and thief, who takes her in, cares for her wound, and teaches her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one can find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who left her in that alley to die. She has escaped…but the cost of her newfound freedom is crime and deception, and she pays it, over and over, until she starts to loathe who she’s becoming.
         Lore has a choice: She can stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner, and risk losing herself forever. Or she can find herself again—but only by becoming someone else, one last time.  

    Bright Young Things

    The present-tense layer, Lore from age 5 to 18, is all brightly-lit, hot tropical colours under saturated blue skies. Settings range from a private island in the South Pacific to high-tech luxury playgrounds for the rich (one of my favourite scenes: two women swimming naked in pink perfluorocarbon—basically breathing liquid—and having great sex) to massive engineering projects such as the 60m high heliostats cascading with water and the 100-km long transparent pipelines raised on pylons running over the Aralkum Desert (both designed to remediate pollution) and to the stolid, dark wood interiors with rich fabrics of moneyed-for-generations homes in Amsterdam.

    Shadowed Streets

    The past-tense third-person layer, which follows Lore from 18 to 21, is much more noirish, stylistically. It is set in a poor northern city (Hull) with an ancient heart. Here in its streets at night Lore has to confront the realities of surviving as part of the anonymous underclass. She moves through the seams of society and does things she is not proud of. The flashing lights of a news tank reflect on rain-wet streets; brittle cocktail-party laughter echoes around shiny, soulless bars while hidden from sight there are drug deals for sex and sex for drugs until as the grey northern skies start to lighten towards dawn and the workers climb into their silent sliding public transport, no one knows anymore which is which. And through it all, that river…

    Coming into Focus

    The third layer—the main layer, the narrative present—is Lore reassessing everything and deciding to start afresh under a new identity without Spanner, and with honest employment: as a grunt in the kind of water treatment plant even one of her family’s underlings would have found beneath their notice. Except as a source of revenue—because Lore’s family owns the patent not only on the genetically modified microbes that transform sewage into potable water but on the necessary cocktail of nutrients the family deliberately engineered those microbes to need. But what do you suppose happens when some low-level manager at the city waterworks decides he can make a little extra by buying off-brand supplies? And how can a supposedly brand-new nobody of an employee make people believe what’s about to go horribly, disastrously wrong without revealing who she really is?

    Hope, Hope, and More Hope

    All that, of course, is just the plot. The real story is Lore’s journey, emotional and physical, as she goes through a series of identity changes, some out of necessity, some from choice.

    Writing this novel was a challenge—and I’m not talking of the technical poetics of how to blend three same-but-different POVs and timelines (which I address in the bonus essay in the new edition). No. I’m talking about this second and third layer, set in a run-down city in a poor region of a poor country suffering the worst of twentieth-turned-to-twenty-first century decaying infrastructure, weaponised web, massive unemployment, and widening income disparity. How do you infuse that urban and moral blight with joy and hope—joy and hope that isn’t delusional but feels solid and grounded? That was the challenge.

    And that, dear reader, is why I think this novel is just as, if not even more, relevant today that it was when I wrote it. Lore—like me and many others here in 2026—finds hope and joy, comfort and delight in the small moments: the sudden sun-yellow weed in an acre of crumbling pavement; the bright fluting of bird on the roof; the simple wonder of watching dried soybean uncurl and expand in boiling water, like watching small worlds being born. It’s the little things that matter, and they’re all around us, no matter how bad things may seem.

    Oh, and spoiler alert: this story ends well. Just as I suspect our story will, sooner or later.

    Buy

    US: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Apple | Phinney Books

    #awardWinning #books #cliFi #sale #SFF #slowRiver
  6. Publishers Weekly has released a nice review for THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT, which is Wendy Waring's literary solarpunk novel coming in September. It's solarpunk but make it darker - think Emily St. John Mandel x Kim Stanley Robinson in a gritty future Paris. publishersweekly.com/978199846

    #Books #Bookstodon #Reading #BookRecommendations #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #CliFi #Solarpunk #EcoFiction #LiteraryFiction #CanLit #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #WendyWaring #StelliformPress

  7. Publishers Weekly has released a nice review for THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT, which is Wendy Waring's literary solarpunk novel coming in September. It's solarpunk but make it darker - think Emily St. John Mandel x Kim Stanley Robinson in a gritty future Paris. publishersweekly.com/978199846

    #Books #Bookstodon #Reading #BookRecommendations #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #CliFi #Solarpunk #EcoFiction #LiteraryFiction #CanLit #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #WendyWaring #StelliformPress

  8. Publishers Weekly has released a nice review for THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT, which is Wendy Waring's literary solarpunk novel coming in September. It's solarpunk but make it darker - think Emily St. John Mandel x Kim Stanley Robinson in a gritty future Paris. publishersweekly.com/978199846

    #Books #Bookstodon #Reading #BookRecommendations #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #CliFi #Solarpunk #EcoFiction #LiteraryFiction #CanLit #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #WendyWaring #StelliformPress

  9. Publishers Weekly has released a nice review for THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT, which is Wendy Waring's literary solarpunk novel coming in September. It's solarpunk but make it darker - think Emily St. John Mandel x Kim Stanley Robinson in a gritty future Paris. publishersweekly.com/978199846

    #Books #Bookstodon #Reading #BookRecommendations #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #CliFi #Solarpunk #EcoFiction #LiteraryFiction #CanLit #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #WendyWaring #StelliformPress

  10. Publishers Weekly has released a nice review for THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT, which is Wendy Waring's literary solarpunk novel coming in September. It's solarpunk but make it darker - think Emily St. John Mandel x Kim Stanley Robinson in a gritty future Paris. publishersweekly.com/978199846

    #Books #Bookstodon #Reading #BookRecommendations #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #CliFi #Solarpunk #EcoFiction #LiteraryFiction #CanLit #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #WendyWaring #StelliformPress

  11. Solarpunk Magazine announced that they suspect two stories from their last issue were a) written by the same person and b) were done using AI. Reflecting on that issue, I felt like there was something off about the two stories. They felt like they lacked some spark. The stories felt too similar. Like they were solarpunk pastiches with just the right mix of elements to make it recognizable.

    Additionally, I tried looking up one of the authors and I found almost no footprint anywhere online. An author with zero social media or online presence?! Possible in this sort of community but highly unlikely to have NOTHING.

    Great that they magazine took accountability for it and I hope to read more wonderful, human created stories about the future.

    solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unkno

    #Solarpunk #Clifi #Bookstodon #Fiction #SolarpunkMagazine #AI #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SSF

  12. Solarpunk Magazine announced that they suspect two stories from their last issue were a) written by the same person and b) were done using AI. Reflecting on that issue, I felt like there was something off about the two stories. They felt like they lacked some spark. The stories felt too similar. Like they were solarpunk pastiches with just the right mix of elements to make it recognizable.

    Additionally, I tried looking up one of the authors and I found almost no footprint anywhere online. An author with zero social media or online presence?! Possible in this sort of community but highly unlikely to have NOTHING.

    Great that they magazine took accountability for it and I hope to read more wonderful, human created stories about the future.

    solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unkno

    #Solarpunk #Clifi #Bookstodon #Fiction #SolarpunkMagazine #AI #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SSF

  13. Solarpunk Magazine announced that they suspect two stories from their last issue were a) written by the same person and b) were done using AI. Reflecting on that issue, I felt like there was something off about the two stories. They felt like they lacked some spark. The stories felt too similar. Like they were solarpunk pastiches with just the right mix of elements to make it recognizable.

    Additionally, I tried looking up one of the authors and I found almost no footprint anywhere online. An author with zero social media or online presence?! Possible in this sort of community but highly unlikely to have NOTHING.

    Great that they magazine took accountability for it and I hope to read more wonderful, human created stories about the future.

    solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unkno

    #Solarpunk #Clifi #Bookstodon #Fiction #SolarpunkMagazine #AI #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SSF

  14. Solarpunk Magazine announced that they suspect two stories from their last issue were a) written by the same person and b) were done using AI. Reflecting on that issue, I felt like there was something off about the two stories. They felt like they lacked some spark. The stories felt too similar. Like they were solarpunk pastiches with just the right mix of elements to make it recognizable.

    Additionally, I tried looking up one of the authors and I found almost no footprint anywhere online. An author with zero social media or online presence?! Possible in this sort of community but highly unlikely to have NOTHING.

    Great that they magazine took accountability for it and I hope to read more wonderful, human created stories about the future.

    solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unkno

  15. Solarpunk Magazine announced that they suspect two stories from their last issue were a) written by the same person and b) were done using AI. Reflecting on that issue, I felt like there was something off about the two stories. They felt like they lacked some spark. The stories felt too similar. Like they were solarpunk pastiches with just the right mix of elements to make it recognizable.

    Additionally, I tried looking up one of the authors and I found almost no footprint anywhere online. An author with zero social media or online presence?! Possible in this sort of community but highly unlikely to have NOTHING.

    Great that they magazine took accountability for it and I hope to read more wonderful, human created stories about the future.

    solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unkno

    #Solarpunk #Clifi #Bookstodon #Fiction #SolarpunkMagazine #AI #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SSF

  16. Byłem na otwarciu... znaczy się, na premierze antologii "Fikcja klimatyczna w Polsce" od Magazyn Biały Kruk na Bazyliszku. I czułem się trochę jakby przeniesiono mnie z powrotem do 2019. Sala - nie ta największa w "Alternatywach", ale wciąż - wypełniona po brzegi ludźmi, których obchodzi problem klimatu i dyskutują, co z nim zrobić, jak o nim mówić i pisać. Bardzo przyjemne doświadczenie, zwłaszcza po przebywaniu przez parę dni u rodziców (to jest ta frakcja polskich "katolików", dla których większym autorytetem zdaje się być Cejrowski niż papież, zwłaszcza ten poprzedni). Tak, wiem, że to bańka, goście i odwiedzający Bazyliszka wydają się być po jednej stronie spektrum politycznego, a tym bardziej, ci, którzy przychodzą na panele i prelekcje o klimacie, ale wciąż.

    Antologia jak widać zażarła. Dzień po premierze miałem prelekcję o polskim climate fiction i przy okazji zachęciłem do podejścia na stanowisko Wydawnictwo IX po papierową wersję i od widowni dowiedziałem się, że już się skończyły. Oczywiście wersja pdf dalej wisi na stronie Białego Kruka za darmo, więc zachęcam do ściągnięcia. Wersja papierowa ma się chyba pojawić jeszcze na niektórych konwentach i w sklepie Wydawnictwa IX (na razie nie widzę), więc zachęcam do śledzenia Białego Kruka.

    Sama prelekcja wyszła chyba całkiem nieźle, mimo że publiczność była dość niewielka (za to zaangażowana - sporo komentarzy od @Leszek_Karlik
    ). Po fakcie zorientowałem się, że zupełnie zapomniałem wspomnieć o "Dzieciach jednej pajęczycy" Olgi Niziołek, a także planowanej antologii "Solarpunk" od wydawnictwa Abyssos - co w sytuacji, kiedy polskie climate fiction to 5 książek na krzyż, trochę robi różnicę.

    [1/2]

    #fantastyka #ClimateFiction #CliFi #PolskaFantastyka #ScienceFiction #bazyliszek #ekofikcje #książki #ekofikcje @ksiazki

  17. Byłem na otwarciu... znaczy się, na premierze antologii "Fikcja klimatyczna w Polsce" od Magazyn Biały Kruk na Bazyliszku. I czułem się trochę jakby przeniesiono mnie z powrotem do 2019. Sala - nie ta największa w "Alternatywach", ale wciąż - wypełniona po brzegi ludźmi, których obchodzi problem klimatu i dyskutują, co z nim zrobić, jak o nim mówić i pisać. Bardzo przyjemne doświadczenie, zwłaszcza po przebywaniu przez parę dni u rodziców (to jest ta frakcja polskich "katolików", dla których większym autorytetem zdaje się być Cejrowski niż papież, zwłaszcza ten poprzedni). Tak, wiem, że to bańka, goście i odwiedzający Bazyliszka wydają się być po jednej stronie spektrum politycznego, a tym bardziej, ci, którzy przychodzą na panele i prelekcje o klimacie, ale wciąż.

    Antologia jak widać zażarła. Dzień po premierze miałem prelekcję o polskim climate fiction i przy okazji zachęciłem do podejścia na stanowisko Wydawnictwo IX po papierową wersję i od widowni dowiedziałem się, że już się skończyły. Oczywiście wersja pdf dalej wisi na stronie Białego Kruka za darmo, więc zachęcam do ściągnięcia. Wersja papierowa ma się chyba pojawić jeszcze na niektórych konwentach i w sklepie Wydawnictwa IX (na razie nie widzę), więc zachęcam do śledzenia Białego Kruka.

    Sama prelekcja wyszła chyba całkiem nieźle, mimo że publiczność była dość niewielka (za to zaangażowana - sporo komentarzy od @Leszek_Karlik
    ). Po fakcie zorientowałem się, że zupełnie zapomniałem wspomnieć o "Dzieciach jednej pajęczycy" Olgi Niziołek, a także planowanej antologii "Solarpunk" od wydawnictwa Abyssos - co w sytuacji, kiedy polskie climate fiction to 5 książek na krzyż, trochę robi różnicę.

    [1/2]

    #fantastyka #ClimateFiction #CliFi #PolskaFantastyka #ScienceFiction #bazyliszek #ekofikcje #książki #ekofikcje @ksiazki

  18. Byłem na otwarciu... znaczy się, na premierze antologii "Fikcja klimatyczna w Polsce" od Magazyn Biały Kruk na Bazyliszku. I czułem się trochę jakby przeniesiono mnie z powrotem do 2019. Sala - nie ta największa w "Alternatywach", ale wciąż - wypełniona po brzegi ludźmi, których obchodzi problem klimatu i dyskutują, co z nim zrobić, jak o nim mówić i pisać. Bardzo przyjemne doświadczenie, zwłaszcza po przebywaniu przez parę dni u rodziców (to jest ta frakcja polskich "katolików", dla których większym autorytetem zdaje się być Cejrowski niż papież, zwłaszcza ten poprzedni). Tak, wiem, że to bańka, goście i odwiedzający Bazyliszka wydają się być po jednej stronie spektrum politycznego, a tym bardziej, ci, którzy przychodzą na panele i prelekcje o klimacie, ale wciąż.

    Antologia jak widać zażarła. Dzień po premierze miałem prelekcję o polskim climate fiction i przy okazji zachęciłem do podejścia na stanowisko Wydawnictwo IX po papierową wersję i od widowni dowiedziałem się, że już się skończyły. Oczywiście wersja pdf dalej wisi na stronie Białego Kruka za darmo, więc zachęcam do ściągnięcia. Wersja papierowa ma się chyba pojawić jeszcze na niektórych konwentach i w sklepie Wydawnictwa IX (na razie nie widzę), więc zachęcam do śledzenia Białego Kruka.

    Sama prelekcja wyszła chyba całkiem nieźle, mimo że publiczność była dość niewielka (za to zaangażowana - sporo komentarzy od @Leszek_Karlik
    ). Po fakcie zorientowałem się, że zupełnie zapomniałem wspomnieć o "Dzieciach jednej pajęczycy" Olgi Niziołek, a także planowanej antologii "Solarpunk" od wydawnictwa Abyssos - co w sytuacji, kiedy polskie climate fiction to 5 książek na krzyż, trochę robi różnicę.

    [1/2]

    #fantastyka #ClimateFiction #CliFi #PolskaFantastyka #ScienceFiction #bazyliszek #ekofikcje #książki @ksiazki

  19. Byłem na otwarciu... znaczy się, na premierze antologii "Fikcja klimatyczna w Polsce" od Magazyn Biały Kruk na Bazyliszku. I czułem się trochę jakby przeniesiono mnie z powrotem do 2019. Sala - nie ta największa w "Alternatywach", ale wciąż - wypełniona po brzegi ludźmi, których obchodzi problem klimatu i dyskutują, co z nim zrobić, jak o nim mówić i pisać. Bardzo przyjemne doświadczenie, zwłaszcza po przebywaniu przez parę dni u rodziców (to jest ta frakcja polskich "katolików", dla których większym autorytetem zdaje się być Cejrowski niż papież, zwłaszcza ten poprzedni). Tak, wiem, że to bańka, goście i odwiedzający Bazyliszka wydają się być po jednej stronie spektrum politycznego, a tym bardziej, ci, którzy przychodzą na panele i prelekcje o klimacie, ale wciąż.

    Antologia jak widać zażarła. Dzień po premierze miałem prelekcję o polskim climate fiction i przy okazji zachęciłem do podejścia na stanowisko Wydawnictwo IX po papierową wersję i od widowni dowiedziałem się, że już się skończyły. Oczywiście wersja pdf dalej wisi na stronie Białego Kruka za darmo, więc zachęcam do ściągnięcia. Wersja papierowa ma się chyba pojawić jeszcze na niektórych konwentach i w sklepie Wydawnictwa IX (na razie nie widzę), więc zachęcam do śledzenia Białego Kruka.

    Sama prelekcja wyszła chyba całkiem nieźle, mimo że publiczność była dość niewielka (za to zaangażowana - sporo komentarzy od @Leszek_Karlik
    ). Po fakcie zorientowałem się, że zupełnie zapomniałem wspomnieć o "Dzieciach jednej pajęczycy" Olgi Niziołek, a także planowanej antologii "Solarpunk" od wydawnictwa Abyssos - co w sytuacji, kiedy polskie climate fiction to 5 książek na krzyż, trochę robi różnicę.

    [1/2]

    #fantastyka #ClimateFiction #CliFi #PolskaFantastyka #ScienceFiction #bazyliszek #ekofikcje #książki #ekofikcje @ksiazki

  20. Byłem na otwarciu... znaczy się, na premierze antologii "Fikcja klimatyczna w Polsce" od Magazyn Biały Kruk na Bazyliszku. I czułem się trochę jakby przeniesiono mnie z powrotem do 2019. Sala - nie ta największa w "Alternatywach", ale wciąż - wypełniona po brzegi ludźmi, których obchodzi problem klimatu i dyskutują, co z nim zrobić, jak o nim mówić i pisać. Bardzo przyjemne doświadczenie, zwłaszcza po przebywaniu przez parę dni u rodziców (to jest ta frakcja polskich "katolików", dla których większym autorytetem zdaje się być Cejrowski niż papież, zwłaszcza ten poprzedni). Tak, wiem, że to bańka, goście i odwiedzający Bazyliszka wydają się być po jednej stronie spektrum politycznego, a tym bardziej, ci, którzy przychodzą na panele i prelekcje o klimacie, ale wciąż.

    Antologia jak widać zażarła. Dzień po premierze miałem prelekcję o polskim climate fiction i przy okazji zachęciłem do podejścia na stanowisko Wydawnictwo IX po papierową wersję i od widowni dowiedziałem się, że już się skończyły. Oczywiście wersja pdf dalej wisi na stronie Białego Kruka za darmo, więc zachęcam do ściągnięcia. Wersja papierowa ma się chyba pojawić jeszcze na niektórych konwentach i w sklepie Wydawnictwa IX (na razie nie widzę), więc zachęcam do śledzenia Białego Kruka.

    Sama prelekcja wyszła chyba całkiem nieźle, mimo że publiczność była dość niewielka (za to zaangażowana - sporo komentarzy od @Leszek_Karlik
    ). Po fakcie zorientowałem się, że zupełnie zapomniałem wspomnieć o "Dzieciach jednej pajęczycy" Olgi Niziołek, a także planowanej antologii "Solarpunk" od wydawnictwa Abyssos - co w sytuacji, kiedy polskie climate fiction to 5 książek na krzyż, trochę robi różnicę.

    [1/2]

    #fantastyka #ClimateFiction #CliFi #PolskaFantastyka #ScienceFiction #bazyliszek #ekofikcje #książki #ekofikcje @ksiazki

  21. This week I've been mainly reading, no. 315.

    Eva Meijar's short CliFi novel Sea Now (2025) is more about mood & affect than having a compelling narrative arc. There is a story, but the power of this novel is the deception of a Netherlands inundated by the sea in short space of time. The changes are observed by a group of characters, the central three of which finally embark on a voyage into the flooded areas. A great, quick read that invokes more than it tells.

    #books @books #CliFi #water

  22. This week I've been mainly reading, no. 315.

    Eva Meijar's short CliFi novel Sea Now (2025) is more about mood & affect than having a compelling narrative arc. There is a story, but the power of this novel is the deception of a Netherlands inundated by the sea in short space of time. The changes are observed by a group of characters, the central three of which finally embark on a voyage into the flooded areas. A great, quick read that invokes more than it tells.

    #books @books #CliFi #water

  23. This week I've been mainly reading, no. 315.

    Eva Meijar's short CliFi novel Sea Now (2025) is more about mood & affect than having a compelling narrative arc. There is a story, but the power of this novel is the deception of a Netherlands inundated by the sea in short space of time. The changes are observed by a group of characters, the central three of which finally embark on a voyage into the flooded areas. A great, quick read that invokes more than it tells.

    #books @books #CliFi #water

  24. This week I've been mainly reading, no. 315.

    Eva Meijar's short CliFi novel Sea Now (2025) is more about mood & affect than having a compelling narrative arc. There is a story, but the power of this novel is the deception of a Netherlands inundated by the sea in short space of time. The changes are observed by a group of characters, the central three of which finally embark on a voyage into the flooded areas. A great, quick read that invokes more than it tells.

    #books @books #CliFi #water

  25. This week I've been mainly reading, no. 315.

    Eva Meijar's short CliFi novel Sea Now (2025) is more about mood & affect than having a compelling narrative arc. There is a story, but the power of this novel is the deception of a Netherlands inundated by the sea in short space of time. The changes are observed by a group of characters, the central three of which finally embark on a voyage into the flooded areas. A great, quick read that invokes more than it tells.

    #books @books #CliFi #water

  26. 3/
    In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one.

    #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #climate #crime #climatefiction #climatechange #migration #clifi #adaptation #crimefiction #scifi #speculativefiction

  27. 3/
    In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one.

    #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #climate #crime #climatefiction #climatechange #migration #clifi #adaptation #crimefiction #scifi #speculativefiction

  28. 3/
    In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one.

    #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #climate #crime #climatefiction #climatechange #migration #clifi #adaptation #crimefiction #scifi #speculativefiction

  29. 3/
    In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one.

    #booksky #books #book #novel #fiction #climate #crime #climatefiction #climatechange #migration #clifi #adaptation #crimefiction #scifi #speculativefiction

  30. @jeppe @sindum Der er ‘The Deluge’ af Stephen Markley - jeg er i gang med den netop nu - den er også fuld af aktivisme og sprængte rørledninger.

    Og ‘Mali’ af Torben Matthiasen, som er en rigtig ubehagelig fortælling om en flugt fra Nordeuropa efter Golfstrømmens kollaps. Første del af en trilogi, som jeg dog endnu har til gode.

    Og Maja Lundes ‘Blå’ - måske en del af den serie, du nævner? Har ikke tjekket efter - men den er i hvert fald god.

    #clifi

  31. @jeppe @sindum Der er ‘The Deluge’ af Stephen Markley - jeg er i gang med den netop nu - den er også fuld af aktivisme og sprængte rørledninger.

    Og ‘Mali’ af Torben Matthiasen, som er en rigtig ubehagelig fortælling om en flugt fra Nordeuropa efter Golfstrømmens kollaps. Første del af en trilogi, som jeg dog endnu har til gode.

    Og Maja Lundes ‘Blå’ - måske en del af den serie, du nævner? Har ikke tjekket efter - men den er i hvert fald god.

    #clifi

  32. @jeppe @sindum Der er ‘The Deluge’ af Stephen Markley - jeg er i gang med den netop nu - den er også fuld af aktivisme og sprængte rørledninger.

    Og ‘Mali’ af Torben Matthiasen, som er en rigtig ubehagelig fortælling om en flugt fra Nordeuropa efter Golfstrømmens kollaps. Første del af en trilogi, som jeg dog endnu har til gode.

    Og Maja Lundes ‘Blå’ - måske en del af den serie, du nævner? Har ikke tjekket efter - men den er i hvert fald god.

    #clifi

  33. @jeppe @sindum Der er ‘The Deluge’ af Stephen Markley - jeg er i gang med den netop nu - den er også fuld af aktivisme og sprængte rørledninger.

    Og ‘Mali’ af Torben Matthiasen, som er en rigtig ubehagelig fortælling om en flugt fra Nordeuropa efter Golfstrømmens kollaps. Første del af en trilogi, som jeg dog endnu har til gode.

    Og Maja Lundes ‘Blå’ - måske en del af den serie, du nævner? Har ikke tjekket efter - men den er i hvert fald god.

    #clifi

  34. @jeppe @sindum Der er ‘The Deluge’ af Stephen Markley - jeg er i gang med den netop nu - den er også fuld af aktivisme og sprængte rørledninger.

    Og ‘Mali’ af Torben Matthiasen, som er en rigtig ubehagelig fortælling om en flugt fra Nordeuropa efter Golfstrømmens kollaps. Første del af en trilogi, som jeg dog endnu har til gode.

    Og Maja Lundes ‘Blå’ - måske en del af den serie, du nævner? Har ikke tjekket efter - men den er i hvert fald god.

    #clifi

  35. Min #fredagsbog er The Deluge af Stephen Markley. En bog, jeg gerne har villet læse, siden @scifisnak.dk gav den pæn omtale tilbage i episode 118. Jeg fik den som paperback engang i foråret, så nu skulle det være.
    scifisnak.dk/the-deluge/
    #clifi #scifi

  36. Min #fredagsbog er The Deluge af Stephen Markley. En bog, jeg gerne har villet læse, siden @scifisnak.dk gav den pæn omtale tilbage i episode 118. Jeg fik den som paperback engang i foråret, så nu skulle det være.
    scifisnak.dk/the-deluge/
    #clifi #scifi

  37. Min #fredagsbog er The Deluge af Stephen Markley. En bog, jeg gerne har villet læse, siden @scifisnak.dk gav den pæn omtale tilbage i episode 118. Jeg fik den som paperback engang i foråret, så nu skulle det være.
    scifisnak.dk/the-deluge/
    #clifi #scifi

  38. Min #fredagsbog er The Deluge af Stephen Markley. En bog, jeg gerne har villet læse, siden @scifisnak.dk gav den pæn omtale tilbage i episode 118. Jeg fik den som paperback engang i foråret, så nu skulle det være.
    scifisnak.dk/the-deluge/
    #clifi #scifi

  39. Min #fredagsbog er The Deluge af Stephen Markley. En bog, jeg gerne har villet læse, siden @scifisnak.dk gav den pæn omtale tilbage i episode 118. Jeg fik den som paperback engang i foråret, så nu skulle det være.
    scifisnak.dk/the-deluge/
    #clifi #scifi

  40. L'insolite de nos nouveaux "paysages aux fenêtres en #couverturedesurvie", et le fait que pas un roman, pas un film, pas une bd de #sciencefiction ou de #clifi n'ait su l'anticiper me conforte dans une idée ancienne :

    Quand on dit que la réalité dépasse la fiction, on prend peut-être les choses à l'envers. C'est la fiction qui est toujours en retard sur le réel

  41. L'insolite de nos nouveaux "paysages aux fenêtres en #couverturedesurvie", et le fait que pas un roman, pas un film, pas une bd de #sciencefiction ou de #clifi n'ait su l'anticiper me conforte dans une idée ancienne :

    Quand on dit que la réalité dépasse la fiction, on prend peut-être les choses à l'envers. C'est la fiction qui est toujours en retard sur le réel

  42. L'insolite de nos nouveaux "paysages aux fenêtres en #couverturedesurvie", et le fait que pas un roman, pas un film, pas une bd de #sciencefiction ou de #clifi n'ait su l'anticiper me conforte dans une idée ancienne :

    Quand on dit que la réalité dépasse la fiction, on prend peut-être les choses à l'envers. C'est la fiction qui est toujours en retard sur le réel

  43. L'insolite de nos nouveaux "paysages aux fenêtres en #couverturedesurvie", et le fait que pas un roman, pas un film, pas une bd de #sciencefiction ou de #clifi n'ait su l'anticiper me conforte dans une idée ancienne :

    Quand on dit que la réalité dépasse la fiction, on prend peut-être les choses à l'envers. C'est la fiction qui est toujours en retard sur le réel

  44. L'insolite de nos nouveaux "paysages aux fenêtres en #couverturedesurvie", et le fait que pas un roman, pas un film, pas une bd de #sciencefiction ou de #clifi n'ait su l'anticiper me conforte dans une idée ancienne :

    Quand on dit que la réalité dépasse la fiction, on prend peut-être les choses à l'envers. C'est la fiction qui est toujours en retard sur le réel