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Meet me at the moon
During a dry time, Mama leaves Little One alone while she climbs the highest mountain to ask the skies for rain, but she promises that her love will remain all around.
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Climate Fallout and Resilience: Unraveling Kim Stanley Robinson’s Visions in Forty Signs of Rain
Human activities play a significant role in bringing changes to the climate. These climate changes significantly impact ecosystems, weather patterns, and sea levels and, overall, bring about massive changes to human societies. Drastic climate changes increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts, and floods. This severely damages infrastructure, especially in ecosystems, and causes a significant loss of life. A profound American novelist, Kim Stanley Robinson, is a science fiction writer whose writing falls into two categories: humanist science fiction and literary science fiction. Robinson’s novels speak about climate and the environment. His Forty Signs of Rain presents the climate changes and measures taken to avoid long-term damage. The novel highlights the complexities of climate, politics, and human resilience. The story revolves around the three main characters. The protagonists are Dr. Frank Vanderwal, a scientist, and Anna Quibler, another scientist who works at NSF in the bioinformatics division, along with her husband, Charlie Quibler. The novel depicts environmental climate change and deals with the social and political dimensions. Apart from the social and political aspects, the novel explores technology's role in addressing climate change. Since this novel deals with many scientists, the writer brings out the attitudes of the scientists who utilize modern techniques and satellites to capture the imagery, monitor environmental changes, and try to predict future trends. Robinson emphasizes that technology alone is insufficient, and along with political and societal cooperation, it has to proceed to save the Earth.
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Spatial awareness
Star Trek: Discovery does not renounce the franchise's past, which was, despite some clumsiness, mostly thoughtful, gently moral, commendably broadminded, and highly entertaining. Instead, Discovery engages with the show's history and today's social and political concerns of division and alienation, integrating these into a gripping action series with sharply-rendered visual effects.
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Editorial
In 1969, in their only chart-topping hit, Zager and Evans wondered whether society's overdependence on technology and exploitation of the environment might lead to the extinction of humankind by the year 9595. Such is the speed of the so-called ‘Great Acceleration’ that has defined the half century since that song was written, some might now doubt whether humanity will survive another 700 years, let alone 7000. For these concerns are no longer the stuff of protest songs and science fiction. Speaking in July, UN secretary general António Guterres warned that climate change presents us with a choice, “Collective action or collective suicide”.1 A few weeks later, a group of scientists published an article arguing that the possibility of a “worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction” as a result of catastrophic climate change is “a dangerously underexplored topic”.2 By coincidence, this summer also saw the passing of the pioneering scientist and originator of the ‘Gaia Hypothesis’, James Lovelock.3 Against the consensus, in the 1970s, Lovelock developed the idea of the Earth as a living and complex system capable of self-regulation to ensure suitability for all forms of life. Today, many of his ideas are core to how we understand climate and environment. Lovelock himself, however, became increasingly sceptical about the long-term prospects of human civilisation, envisaging a more vengeful Gaia, increasingly prepared to prioritise her own long-term survival over suitability for human life.4 Without doubt, all of the concerns have been reinforced over the year since the pivotal COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow at the end of 2021, which has illustrated the quickening pace of extreme- and record-breaking weather events and underlined the challenges we face in reducing greenhouse gases and restoring the environment to ensure a future for humanity.
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Cli-Fi, Noir, and The Nonhuman Subject in Netflix's The Silent Sea (2021)
The various elements explored by American noir scholars such as Stewart King and Homer B. Pettey include an analysis of how the hardboiled private investigator and the dangerous femme fatale reflect gender and sexual norms of the era, or how the anti-hero reflects a conception of the individual as isolated or fragmented. [...]The Silent Sea depicts what Timothy Morton calls a \"dark ecology,\" in his book of the same name, that renders nature as ruined or destroyed as a result of anthropogenic climate change; the series relies on a fusion of noir and cli-fi conventions with the hope that humanity may halt the violence humans inflict on the nonhuman, and the potential violence that a destroyed nature may wreak upon humanity in return. Because eco-catastrophes are often experienced on a global level, especially when they pertain to water usage and drought, it is important to consider how this series adopts a global perspective-how it links South Korean and American conventions-to highlight the widespread effects of climate change. Because The Silent Sea depicts space exploration and the dystopic effects of climate change by fusing elements of speculative fiction with mystery, violence, and thrill, one might name the series as a \"crimate\" television series, a term that Stewart King coined in \"Crimate Fiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place.\" [...]we can expand upon our ecocritical approaches when examining expression of environmental concern, and one way of doing so is by using the conventions of noir as tools for \"discussing ecological crises and abuses [...] exposing the criminal acts they involve in their violent effects on people and the environment\" (1236).
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Flotsam: A Theory of Waste in the Anthropocene
In this article, I propose the concept of flotsam –waste washed-up or discarded in water –as a means of making sense of the pollution of the Anthropocene. Using examples taken from science fiction, notably that of J.G. Ballard’s novel The Drought , I suggest that flotsam (and jetsam) embody a capitalist logic in the Anthropocene in which potentially any being, human or non-human, and any thing, can become waste in a capitalist economy built on calculations of use-value, in what Marx called the “metabolic interaction” between nature and human.
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Our Heroic Journey: \A great storm is coming but the tide has turned,\ - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
From forest fires to droughts to sea inundations to once-a-century storms happening every other year - we can no longer deny the science that we've studied for the past 50 years. [...]like Frodo and friends, the A\\J editorial team persevered through their own versions of Mordor and the other trials and tribulations, hacking and slashing the wordier contributions (ahem...), and delivering a compelling coherent 'whole' crafted together from a series of science fiction stories that leaned heavily on the 'science' to help avoid the siren's call for cliches. Today, in 2021, 50 years after our founding, we are now certain that a storm of impacts, a great storm, is coming our way as a result of anthropogenic climate change. In 2071, it is our fervent hope that human society will have exited the worst period of the 'great climate storm' - and will have learned how to replant humanity in harmony with nature.
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Human Emotions in Narrative: Interventions of Fear in R. Chudamani’s Short Fictions
Chudamani is one of the inconspicuous writers in Indian literature who is gradually gaining prominence in the recent past. Chudamani’s works are powerful and sensitive unveiling the reality of human beings in society and their psychological aspects. This research article aims to analyse a novella and three short stories of R. Chudamani and inquires about the human emotions especially fear portrayed in those stories. The major focus of the article is on the novella, Yamini, and the minor focus is on the three short stories: “A Knock at the Door”, “The Strands of the Void” and “Drought”. Yamini is the story of a girl Yamini, who is forced into the institution of marriage. “A Knock at the Door” is the narrative of two widows who safeguard their sister’s son from his father. “The Strands of the Void” explores the system of dowry in Indian society. “Drought” is the story of a married woman who tries to escape from the torments of her husband. This paper also scrutinizes the fear in the protagonists and the central characters in the above works. It also inspects how fear transmogrifies the characters in different situations.
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