Rome was sacked by Gaul invaders in 390 BC, and in the 210s BC the Carthaginian general Hannibal wreaked havoc on the Italian Peninsula. Yet […] Read More
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What did the Russian, Ottoman and Chinese empires share in common in the 15th and 20th Centuries? In the 15th century all three shunned the […] Read More
In 1621, the Dutch East Indies Company virtually exterminated the native people of the Bandu Islands in order to seize a monopoly on the lucrative […] Read More
The setup of the movie Don’t Look Up is recognizable enough: Two low-level astronomers (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a comet which […] Read More
Is going vegan or driving an electric car the best thing you can do to mitigate climate change? How about voting out climate deniers? According […] Read More
Did you know that some people love spoilers? Does knowing the climax or plot twists in advance make reading a book more or less enjoyable […] Read More
Author Marissa Slaven and I are both members of the Climate Fiction Writers League. The League asked us to interview each other about our respective […] Read More
I am old enough to remember the novels of the 70’s and 80’s which depicted averted nuclear holocausts. Nuclear obliteration was avoided through the heroic […] Read More
Robert Reich was fourteen when he was forced by a cruel stepfather to leave the 1956 foment in Budapest. Stuck with an ambivalent uncle and […] Read More
“We’re going over the waterfall, but I’m paddling my little boat upstream.” That’s how author Rod Taylor describes the scale of his personal resistance against […] Read More