Kim Stanley Robinson and Sheldon Solomon on exploration and death – books podcast
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Can humanity escape extinction by reaching for the stars? We confront final questions with the science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson and the psychologist Sheldon Solomon
" Science fiction: the realism of the 21st century
" Science fiction: the realism of the 21st century
We're heading off into the unknown in this week's podcast, with a pair of writers who explore what drives our human experiment.
The writer Kim Stanley Robinson has been examining possible futures for humanity for 40 years in a series of novels that stretch from nuclear devastation through climate chaos to Mars and beyond. His latest novel, Aurora, pushes 500 years onwards with a story of a vast starship on a 200-year journey to Tau Ceti.
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