People can be snobs about science fiction, and I admit that until a few years back I was one of them. Meanwhile, I had ...

The West Coast is on fire. Sea level rise is slowly eating away at our shores, and record-breaking floods have come for the Midwestern states. Wealth ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

Now intimately familiar with a wildfire's destructive powers, many who came to hear Iyer speak clutched his book with a fiery ... Butler's novel ”Parable of the Sower," considered prophetic ...

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