Fiction of Our Climate: On Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future"
Because inequality threatens stability only in certain political systems, and because people can’t agree on morality, inequality by default becomes considered an economic rather than a political or moral problem.
The Deflation of Spatial Imagination: On Columbus’ Future in “Ready Player One”
Perhaps the best place to view the future of Columbus, Ohio is from the vestiges of its fictionalized futures in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (2011) and its sequel, Ready Player Two (2020).