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ReS Futurae, 2022 The two plays Play the Paradise and Let Them Eat Money are fictions focussing on the coming climate catastrophe. Both are structured along clear narratives : they are anchored in the present et anticipate future disasters on a social and individual level.
Eliane Beaufils
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“Tales and Adventures”: G.A. Henty’s Union Jack and the Competitive World of Publishing for Boys in the 1880s’ [PDF]
, 2008 In the competitive publishing environment of the late nineteenth century, writers and magazines had to distinguish themselves carefully from potential rivals. This article examines how G.A. Henty’s quality boys’ weekly, Union Jack (1880-83), attempted to
A. Moncrieff +21 more
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Flocking together : collective animal minds in contemporary fiction [PDF]
, 2020 The remarkable coordination displayed by animal groups such as an ant colony or a flock of birds in flight is not just a behavioral feat; it reflects a full-fledged form of collective cognition.
Caracciolo, Marco
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Fictioning the Futures of Climate Change
Fafnir, 2022 Fictionality, at a basic level, is a heuristic invitation. It achieves its effects using a combination of worldbuilding and speculative potential, the former the design and the latter the openings afforded by the conditions of the design. Within climate
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
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Strategies of Cognitive Estrangement in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2021 This paper seeks to analyse the strategies of cognitive estrangement employed by the science fiction writer and literary scholar Kim Stanley Robinson in his New York 2140 (2017).
Klata Michał
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Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2021 Solar, Ian McEwan’s first novel about climate change, employs a comic tone that departs from most climate fictions’ apocalyptic, dystopian and elegiac inspirations.
Marion Moussier
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A Roof of One\u27s Own: Widow Walking in the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2018 A nonfiction work that explores widow\u27s walks in a time of climate change on the coasts.
Mullen, Anna C
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Science Fiction and Climate Change
, 2020 Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism among Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near consensus among climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect.
Milner, Andrew, Burgmann, J.R.
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This article demonstrates the successful qualification of a copper–tungsten composite for laser powder bed fusion. The resulting components exhibited high density, high thermal conductivity, and reduced thermal expansion. Heat sinks with complex geometries were successfully manufactured, clearly showcasing the material's potential for additive ...
Simon Rauh +6 more
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Where are all the climate change games? Locating digital games' response to climate change [PDF]
, 2017 The burgeoning genre of climate fiction, or ‘cli-fi’, in literature and the arts has begun to attract both scholarly and popular attention. It hasbeen described as ‘potentially [having] crucial contributions to make toward full understanding of the ...
Abraham, Benjamin, Jayemanne, Darshana
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