Kim Stanley Robinson: "Climate, Fiction, and The Future"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Future of Science Fiction
I'm really interested to see how you will respond is science fiction writ large, colonizing space and these things to me seem energy and ecology blind from a biophysical perspective. So I suppose books about an earth track future where humans are using 80% less material throughput and it's a tougher material existence wouldn't actually be in the sci-fi genre. But do you have any thoughts on that? No, that would be a science fiction story. And it's a good one. It's often a scam because anybody who claims to know what the future is bringing is making a false claim. There's an interesting side case to be made that Mars, if we were to be in a good
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