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Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Science Fiction and the Middle Zone

'I would divide science fiction up temporally. There's a far future science fiction, which we would call space opera', he says. Then there's the middle zone, relatively depopulate, a what i call it future history,' he adds. 'That is a zone of interest where you actually see not just what will happen with the present pushed, but what kind of historical change is possible from where we are right now'

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