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Author Marjorie B. Kellogg discusses the decade-long process of writing her new science fiction/climate fiction novel, Glimmer.

Why American climate fiction is fuelling age-old stereotypes about modern migration While employing well-known ideas can help get points across about a potential future, there is a more compelling way to represent climate migration. 2 hours ago Wild fires on the US’s West Coast displaced many from their homes, making them climate change migrants. | Reuters Typically set in the future, climate fiction (or “cli-fi”) showcases the disastrous consequences of climate change and anticipates the dramatic transformations to come. Among the various scenarios cli-fi consi...

Kitefin Li-Fi system. (Photo: pureLiFi) US Army Europe and Africa embarks on the first large-scale deployment of Li-Fi communication technology. The US Army is adopting Li-Fi optical wireless communication technology that uses the visible light, ultraviolet, and IR spectra to transmit data. UK-based pureLiFi will provide its Kitefin system to the US Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF) in a $4.2 million deal, in what the company described as ‘the world’s first large-scale deployment’ of the technology. USAREUR-AF ‘is fielding the capability across its theatres of operations’, pu...

BOOK REVIEW: Cli-fi — coming soon to a planet near you Two new science-fiction books hope to wake us up to the frightening reality of what climate change means 21 January 2021 - 05:06 David Gorin Picture: 123RF/LILKAR The awful attraction of climate-based science fiction, or “cli-fi”, is that it’s only borderline fiction. In real time we are witnesses to the formative aspects of the story, though we don’t want to believe what we see. Good cli-fi serves a vital purpose: literature may help to shake us from ignorance, indifference or inaction. Two new novels do ...