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Critical Friends Episode 14: Hard Times

Critical Friends Episode 14: Hard Times

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In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Dan Hartland speaks with writers and critics Octavia Cade and M. L. Clark about writing in hard times. How and why is speculative friction written in contexts of defeat, despair, or decay? They discuss climate change and artificial intelligence, systems political, biological, and economic—and how SF might be, and yet sometimes isn't, a key tool in opening up new modes of understanding during a time that Octavia suggests might best be termed the Necrocene.

M. L. Clark's review of Ray Nayler's Where The Axe is Buried.

Octavia Cade's review of Vanessa Saunders's The Flat Woman.

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