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    The Year's Most Important SF Anthology Is Out Now

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    Image of jaynesworth jaynesworth
    10/23/09

    In reply to The Year's Most Important SF Anthology Is Out Now
    I just ordered it shipped from the UK to the US at [www.pickabook.co.uk] for about $17, including shipping. #books
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    Image of Franknbeans Franknbeans
    10/23/09

    In reply to The Year's Most Important SF Anthology Is Out Now
    I'll read it, no doubt. I like the comment that they try to reforge the alloy that makes Sci-Fi great. Without the strong underpinnings of Science, you have fantasy. #books
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    Image of Franknbeans Franknbeans
    10/23/09

    In reply to The Year's Most Important SF Anthology Is Out Now
    Oh and where can we get it?
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment Edited by Franknbeans at 10/23/09 4:26 PM Franknbeans was starred Franknbeans was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/23/09

    @Franknbeans: I think it's available at Borders and stuff... let me check. #books
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/23/09

    @Franknbeans: According to Borders, it's out in the U.S. next April 1. #books
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    10/23/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders:
    Available at the same time from Amazon #books
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    10/23/09

    @phoghat: You might check out Amazon.co.uk. I routinely order British editions of my favorite authors from them to read far in advance of their U.S. publication. (Frequently the cover art of the British editions is superior too. Go figure.) #books
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    Image of ParryLost ParryLost
    09/05/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    And then of course there is the solution from Elizabeth Bear's Carnival: Build AIs that will save the planet... by literally taking apart every human being in the Northern Hemisphere.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    09/05/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Hooray! You're reading Lem!
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    Image of jbq jbq
    09/05/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    If they ever did a sequel to Highlander, I hope they wouldn't let it involve Connor MacLeod designing a force field to shield the earth from solar radiation (not exactly global warming, but the global warming of the 80s), because that'd just be dumb. Luckily, there is no sequel, so that's all right.
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    Image of FrankN.Stein FrankN.Stein
    09/05/09

    @jbq: True... no such sequel... never happend... ladiladila....
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    Image of joetato joetato
    09/08/09

    @jbq: A sequel to Highlander! What a silly notion. Why not a sequel to The Matrix while you're at it? Hahahahahahaha. Why not two sequels? Or prequels to the Star Wars trilogy?

    Mwaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

    Silly carbon-based bipeds.
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    Edited by joetato at 09/08/09 11:45 AM joetato was starred joetato was unstarred
    Image of foolish-rain foolish-rain
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    re: Restart the Gulf Stream. Sure, it hits -50 in Washington and the world leaps into action. What is the world doing about the -50 temperatures we currently get here in the ninth circle aka Minnesota?
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Here's an an idea: make humans at least slightly autotrophic, i.e. make us photosynthetic, so we don't eat nearly as much. that way you need fewer methane spewing cows, less land for agriculture, and you also at least partially solve the starvation problem. Wow, I'm a genius! Where's my friggin' Nobel?!
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    09/04/09

    @The_Sporean_Bob: If that means green people, I'm in.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Lets just do a controlled eruption of Yellowstone so it sends enough ash in to the air to lower the temperature. We can do that, right? Right?
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    Image of DaveyNC DaveyNC
    09/04/09

    @LittleDragon: Yellowstone is a national park. Didn't know that those erupted.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    @DaveyNC: Yellowstone park is a large caldera. If is erupts, it would take out most of Western USA.
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    Image of dazoid dazoid
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    SAVE THE TURTLES!
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    Image of darthsodomizer darthsodomizer
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    @darthsodomizer: And Summer Glau will lead us.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Drop a bomb on the ozone. That's the American way.
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    Image of Doctor Who? Doctor Who?
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    Another option is saying "Screw it", and creating a Ringworld or Dyson Sphere. Entirely out of the question with modern technology, though.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    For the Urban Fantasy selection, Harry Dresden messes with Global Climate Change by getting involved with a Faerie civil war.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    09/04/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: Poor Harry. He really gets caught up in some messed up stuff.
    The Scifi channels series may have deviated from the books but it was still fun. Maybe we can get a reboot with the vampire war and the Faeries.
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    Image of CoyoteBrown CoyoteBrown
    09/04/09

    In reply to 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
    In Rainbow Six, (by Tom Clancy), a group of eco terrorists genetically engineer a virus strain in the hopes of wiping out enough humans to reverse the effects of global warming. Then there's moonraker, which is essentially the same plot, but with a toxin and not a virus, and way more miniskirts.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Edited by CoyoteBrown at 09/04/09 1:54 PM CoyoteBrown was starred CoyoteBrown was unstarred
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