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Climate Fiction can be found everywhere except genre category lists. We gravitate to genres because – a little like a fast-food outlet on a remote highway – they provide some certainty that our expectations will be met. Whether its bodice ripping or forensic pathology, most of us prefer to know what we’re getting into. Genres are more than categories though. They are also a ritual, or exchange, by which culture reflects itself. Consider the action genre, currently dominated b

Bill Gates has always been my least offensive tech billionaire, not so much because of his philanthropy, but because he has not made the assault on the truth part of his business model and has championed science instead. Which is why his memo today, Three tough truths about climate  felt like a depressing capitulation, or at least a brain fart. Indeed, Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, described it as “pointless, vague,

The   Anthropocene Series  was simmering in my subconscious long before the idea of writing it occurred to me. And when I made the...