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Prepare to Be Kind

Rebecca Priestley

‘Looking forward to 2100, it’s a choice between another thirty centimetres of sea level rise if we do everything we can to cut our carbon emissions, and up to two metres of sea level rise if we don’t.’

The Dragon’s Den

Tim Flannery

‘Just imagine the Australian inland with herds of rhino-sized diprotodon, as well as other gigantic marsupials, being preyed on by marsupial lions and Komodo dragons.’

Projects Not Realized

Nate Duke

‘in the noon dark I miss my landing’

The Possibility of an Emperor

Patrick Barkham

‘I had always been told that the purple emperor was rare because old woods were rare.’

Aliens and Us

Ken Thompson

‘Japanese knotweed is a terrific late-season source of nectar for both bees and hoverflies, but that’s not much of a headline, is it?’

The High House

Jessie Greengrass

‘All those who might have lived instead of us are gone, or they are starving, while we stay on here at the high house, pulling potatoes from soft earth.’

Upirngasaq (Arctic Spring)

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

‘Everyone benefits from a frozen Arctic. The future of the Arctic environment, and the Inuit it supports, is inextricably tied to the future of the planet.’

In Conversation

Sophie Collins & Will Harris

‘I’ve been dreaming wildly in lockdown. Have you?’

Faith

Sayaka Murata

‘Hey, Nagaoka, wanna start a new cult with me?’

New fiction by Sayaka Murata, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Dancing for the Avatar

Kō Machida

‘If I let myself sink down into this I’m never coming back up.’

Interview

Lynne Tillman

‘Things that we love, things that we hate – we need to crack it open.’

Kōbō Abe

Thomas McMullan

‘Against the immensity of things, look at what you can grasp, he seems to say. Grasp it tightly.’

Thomas McMullan on the writing of Kōbō Abe.

Pretty Polly

Shinichi Hoshi

‘Compared to all of you, I’m not the handsomest guy or the smartest, which might’ve caused me all sorts of grief if I was a landlubber. But I spent my life at sea, so I got by.’