[NEWS] Five sci-fi links: science fiction, Farscape, climate change, Rose MacAulay, 2019

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• The BBC considers what the science fiction we prefer to read says about us.


• Arkady Martine at Tor considers the ethical dilemmas of Farscape protagonist John Crichton, reminding me again that I should watch this series, some time.


• James Nicoll at Tor lists five classic SF novels examining anthropogenic climate change.


• Alison Flood at The Guardian reports on the overlooked 1918 novel What Not by Rose MacAulay, a work that may have influenced Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.


• Adrian Lee at MacLean's considers what the three dystopian films of Blade Runner, Akira, and The Running Man, all set in 2019, have to say about the year as it was imagined and as it exists.