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In my own backyard
A young child looks out a bedroom window seeing the backyard as it would have looked if she had seen it during various historical and geological periods.
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The Poetics of Speculative Realism in Margaret Atwood’s Select Works
Over the past two decades, Margaret Atwood has consistently defined her work as speculative fiction, pointing out the realistic foundation of her works, rather than imagining the future technology. Yet critics remain divided on how her works represent “reality” through imagination. Previous studies have primarily focused on speculative elements at the content and narrative levels, along with references to reality. This paper holds that her works are significantly different from the writing of traditional literature in terms of content and formal characteristics, especially in the cognitive and thinking levels such as speculative subjects, speculative narrative strategies and the use of cognitive modal words, but they are rooted in reality and reflect a speculative realism feature. The paper attempts to interpret Atwood's speculative novels—including The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, and Oryx and Crake—from the perspective of speculative realism. It aims to reveal the reality from the cognitive perspective presented by the author and characters, and analyze the artistic charm of Atwood's speculative fiction.
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The Seismic Seven
Seven middle schoolers brought to Yellowstone National Park, supposedly to stop a supervolcano from erupting, learn that they are actually working for a brilliant scientist determined to destroy the world.
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Catastrophic Form and Planetary Realism
This essay explores the entanglement of radical humanisms and realist ontologies in theorizing catastrophe in the contemporary global novel. Both humanism and realism have been declared dead a few times this past century. I do not propose to rehearse this gesture, especially in an era when the imprint of the human is beginning to acquire geological and planetary proportions, and the boundaries of realism extend far beyond the ordinary visible rhythm of bourgeois life. Rather, I am intent on exploring how their interplay shapes the twenty-first century global novel as the latter mediates human and non-human life forms in our era of techno- and biogenetic capitalism and anthropogenic climate change. Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, James George's Ocean Roads and Indra Sinha's Animal's People feature as examples of such novels.
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Dinosaur explorers. #3, Playing in the Permian
This time, the X-Venture Xplorers are in the Permian - Carboniferous eras, around 350 million years back. Many creatures which are small today were very big back then- which presents a big problem when the X-Venture Xplorers come face to face with things like giant spiders! Even more big dangers from today's small creatures await the team as they quickly realize that it is a bad idea to be PLAYING IN THE PERMIAN!
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Isotopic constraints on the contribution of lightning-produced nutrients to Earth’s early biosphere
Lightning can produce bioavailable nitrogen oxides, but it is unknown whether this was a substantial nutrient source for Earth’s earliest biosphere. Comparison of nitrogen isotope measurements from spark discharge experiments to those from the rock record suggests that lightning was likely not the main source of bioavailable nitrogen for the biosphere throughout most of Earth’s history.
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Dinosaur explorers. #4, Trapped in the Triassic
While exploring the Triassic era, the X-Venture Xplorers are split in two- not by rampaging creatures or primal danger, but by simple squabbling! Stone and Emily continue on foot, while Rain and Sean take the vehicle for a spin! However, the era's residents see this as an opportunity to score some bite-sized snacks! And things are only going to get worse!
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Dinosaur explorers. #5, Lost in the Jurassic
After a time-travel mishap, the Dinosaur Explorers with Dr. Da Vinci, his assistant Diane, and their robot Starz find themselves stranded in the Jurassic era with some not-so-friendly dinosaurs.
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Visions of human futures in space and SETI
We discuss how visions for the futures of humanity in space and SETI are intertwined, and are shaped by prior work in the fields and by science fiction. This appears in the language used in the fields, and in the sometimes implicit assumptions made in discussions of them. We give examples from articulations of the so-called Fermi Paradox, discussions of the settlement of the Solar System (in the near future) and the Galaxy (in the far future), and METI. We argue that science fiction, especially the campy variety, is a significant contributor to the ‘giggle factor’ that hinders serious discussion and funding for SETI and Solar System settlement projects. We argue that humanity's long-term future in space will be shaped by our short-term visions for who goes there and how. Because of the way they entered the fields, we recommend avoiding the term ‘colony’ and its cognates when discussing the settlement of space, as well as other terms with similar pedigrees. We offer examples of science fiction and other writing that broaden and challenge our visions of human futures in space and SETI. In an appendix, we use an analogy with the well-funded and relatively uncontroversial searches for the dark matter particle to argue that SETI's lack of funding in the national science portfolio is primarily a problem of perception, not inherent merit.
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