apocalpyse, dystopia, and the end of histoire
Benjamin Kunkel has a very fine piece in that most pro-dystopian of little mags, Dissent, on the warehouseload of apocalyptic and dystopian fictions that have appeared over the past ten or so years....
View Articlecatastrophe, in syndication
Funny thing. Not so long ago, it looked like the future when this sort of stuff was shown on TV. Now, just a few years later, it has the look of a made-for-tv period movie, set circa 2003. The age of...
View Articledon’t need a weatherman…
Strange situation: not all that long ago, it seemed to me obvious that dystopian speculative fiction was one of the genres if not the genre best adapted to a left political stance. The drawing out of...
View Article3 for 2 for you: james miller’s sunshine state
Hint: you might want to get yourself down to your local Waterstones* and grab yourself a copy of this. It’s on 3 for 2, so the price is right. It’s post-Ballardian eco-catastrophe cut to follow the...
View Articlea belated new year’s message
2012 is over. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming.
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