Is This A Unique Time for Science? We Ask Sci-fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson
Jun 13, 2020•48 min
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Episode description
Has this pandemic presented a unique moment for science in our history? Or is it just a strange and temporary moment of science fiction? Or both?
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson (The Mars Trilogy, The Ministry of the Future) recently penned an essay in the New Yorker about how the virus has “changed our imaginations” and created a new “structure of feeling.”
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Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson (The Mars Trilogy, The Ministry of the Future) recently penned an essay in the New Yorker about how the virus has “changed our imaginations” and created a new “structure of feeling.”
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mendelspod.com/subscribe
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