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Tag: Climate change

Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne

These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Short stories, Spec-fic, Speculative

Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)

The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.

Anthology, Anthropocene, Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen

Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Indigenous writers

Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.

Classics, Climate change, Frankenstein, Novel, science, science fiction, speculative fiction, Switzerland

Review: Summer by Ali Smith

Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet is over. What a journey, and what a time for it to end.

Ali Smith, Brexit, British, Climate change, Contemporary, Donald Trump, Fiction, Novel, UK

Review: Notes From An Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell

Mark O’Connell is a very entertaining, self-effacing and thoughtful companion to the end of the world.

Apocalypse, Climate change, Contemporary, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Superpower by Ross Garnaut

This book could radically transform Australia’s approach to climate change.

Climate change, Nonfiction

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