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.
Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod,
report finds
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The 55 pilot whales, which had to be euthanised, had been following a
female having a difficult birth, scientists believe
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