The US science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson is guest editor of this week's New Scientist. He writes a piece himself on stories of now:
the literature that best expresses our time, that speaks to our time, is science fiction. How could it be otherwise? Our world is a science fiction.
This is important, because you need the literature of your time. You can't get the meaning of our life in 2009 from historical fiction, nor from science alone.
Country diary: It’s 10am at the Melplash Show and the cider contest is well
under way | Sara Hudston
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*Bridport, Dorset:* Away from the sheep, pigs and Martin Clunes’s horse,
there is a bounty of ciders to be sampled. Talk, though, is of this year’s
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