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The recent heatwave – more intense in North India, with temperatures in the mid-forties in Delhi – has put me in mind of Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future, which begins with an extreme heatwave in North India. When I reviewed Sixty Degrees and Counting, the final volume of Robinson’s trilogy about climate change, in Vector in 2008, I expressed disappointment that he’d shown us only the beginning of both the effects of climate change and humankind’s grap

This volume in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series gathers stories mainly about extreme weather, but includes also some other...

In Rob Latham’s Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014) the field of ecocriticism was conspicuous by its absence. That gap could have...

The Telling is the last of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish novels, set in a galaxy in which numerous planets, including Terra, have been...