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7 Climate Change Novels That Imagine Our Possible Futures Share Image: Hitoshi Suzuki/Unsplash, FAL To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Every day brings fresh and ever more alarming news about the state of the global environment. To speak of mere “climate change” is inadequate now, for we are in a “climate emergency“. It seems as though we are tripping over more tipping poi...

Like most Gothics, the Australian Gothic has acquired its own distinct aesthetic—most frequently, an abject unpleasantness and atmosphere of sand-scoured horror. Personally, I’d like to blame both Evil Angels (aka Strange Objects (1990) for many of my own nightmares. It is also, like most Gothics, tangled up with the genre’s own past, and inextricably knotted into colonial and imperial histories as well as the multitude of other mirrored and recurring histories typical of a Gothic plot. And Australia has a bloody history, with terrible things done and still being done. Yet there are a...

Police calls The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office received 125 calls on Wednesday; Forest City police received 59 calls; Spindale police processed 62 calls; Rutherfordton police received 18 calls; Lake Lure police processed 6 calls; Rutherford County EMS processed 50 calls; Rescue processed 19 calls. Fire calls Forest City firefighters were called to a motor vehicle accident and a structure fire; Hudlow firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident. Arrests Christian Fortenberry, of Mooresboro, was arrested for assault on female, injury to personal property, first degree kidnappin...

This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance,...

0 exactly great. and the cost that most americans actually care about more is the cost themselves, how much they will accept the paper their health care. some will do better in some of the words and some of these employer provided plans will now require workers to cover more of the up front costs than they did before. it kind of depends on the situation, but what it doesn't do is reassure people that you can keep your plan if you like your current plan and the whole point of the affordable care act was to make people feel more secure in their health care and instead what has happened is that m...