Saturday, June 30, 2007

Imagine All the People... Gone


I'm not a science fiction fan, as a rule, but I'm not immune to a little alternative-future thinking on occasion. So I'll confess I was intrigued by a recent CBC interview with Alan Weisman, author of the forthcoming SF novel The World Without Us (to be published July 10).

Weisman discusses how the world would change if humans were to suddenly disappear. For example, he predicts that feral housecats wouldn't miss us at all. (But you knew that.) The author says he spoke to a number of experts to ground his sci-fi in sci-fact, and the result sounds like it will be better than your usual space opera.

Listen to the interview here.--David E

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