Tag: Fiction
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Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette
in PodcastsIn this bilingual podcast, Brenda Becette talks with Bri Meyer about the role of fiction in our dystopic reality. Becette’s short stories avenge women, children, and environment.
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Gender and Glacial Agency in The Ice Sings Back
in ReviewsMaria Tane reviews feminist geographer and glaciologist M Jackson’s debut novel, which reveals a profound connection between melting ice and missing women.
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The Rise of the Climate Change Novel
in ReviewsWhat happens when our changing world starts to look more and more unreal? The recent boom in novels that depict climate change pits the real against the magical, surreal, and fantastical.
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Review: Adam Trexler’s Anthropocene Fictions
in ReviewsA new book surveys 150 novels about climate change and makes the case for the virtues of cli-fi.
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Edgy Stuff: October 2015 Recommendations
in ChecklistsOctober 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
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Our Climatic Fate? Oreskes and Conway’s “Collapse of Western Civilization”
in ReviewsNaomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s tale of our catastrophic future is a provocative hybrid of scholarship and science fiction that’s great for the classroom.
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Whatever. . . Never Mind, or Old Torvald Skaalen Died on Saturday
in ExhibitsA story at the intersection of truth, lies, memory, and imagination set in the Norwegian-American cultural landscape of Stoughton, Wisconsin.
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Edgy Stuff: October 2014 Recommendations
in ChecklistsOctober recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.