After Water Fiction: Poison Fish
(Flickr/surfergirl1972) What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more precious than oil or gold? …
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WBEZ brings fiction writers and scientists together, then asked the writers to jump off from there, creating stories set decades from now—when clean, fresh water could be a rare resource.
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After Water: An interview with author Nnedi Okorafor
Award-winning, science-fiction author Nnedi Okorafor wrote a story set on Chicago’s Rainbow Beach, decades in the future. After a conversation with a Great Lakes expert, she imagined a future world …
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ListenAfter Water: An interview with author Max Andrew Dubinsky
Author Max Andrew Dubinsky imagines a future world where people in California are plagued by drought and rising sea levels. In hopes of finding a better life, some of them turn their eyes towards …
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ListenAfter Water Fiction: The Way of the River
Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest. She is the author of “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” and “Bad Feminist,” a New York Times bestseller. “The Way of the River” is Gay’s contribution to After …
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