Looking for your favorite works of environmentally conscious and ecologically focused science fiction and fantasy. Obscurities preferred!
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posted by gerryblog
on Sep 15, 2012 -
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What could slow down the pace of change (religious/scientific/economic/cultural) in a civilization? (Please see specific details inside.)
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posted by Wretch729
on Jul 11, 2012 -
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What are some examples in fantastic and speculative fiction of characters struggling to survive in a beautiful but alien and dangerous natural environment? All media acceptable.
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posted by strangely stunted trees
on May 11, 2012 -
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Ask whether the universe of the story recognizes the existence of persons. Is
this distinction between SF and Fantasy original with Ted Chiang? Can you think of any counter-examples that don't fit?
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posted by straight
on Sep 14, 2011 -
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RaceWIN? Native American-written dystopian/fantasy/science/ speculative fiction. I am looking for the name of the text and author of a contemporary Native American novel that is satirical and dystopian.
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posted by MidSouthern Mouth
on May 31, 2011 -
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Can you identify this book? I read it in the mid-1980s. It may or may not have been a YA (Young Adult) title. The protagonist was a young girl, and her society lived peacefully up in the trees. She was interested in seeing the world down on the surface. There may have been another society down there. At one point she lost her temper with someone (a pet?) and blurted out something like "I would like to
dead you!" at which her family was shocked and horrified at her violent thoughts. I particularly remember being struck by that part, that she understood the concept of killing but didn't know the verb.
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posted by tomboko
on Dec 27, 2010 -
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Can you recommend fiction that is a crossover between noir/hardboiled detective stories and sci-fi/fantasy?
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posted by gritter
on Sep 20, 2010 -
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What are some good light-hearted quotations for a wedding reading, preferably from fantasy/SF/young adult books?
This question had some good SF ones but we're also after fantasy. Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Gaiman, Bujold are some examples of authors we're looking at
posted by xiw
on Apr 6, 2010 -
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I'm looking for a short story I lost the link to. It's probably recent, it's about the Tin Man, and it has nice prose.
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posted by Nancy Lebovitz
on Feb 19, 2008 -
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