Speculative fiction

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• SOURCE: Calgary Herald
  5/31/2020
  

  Robert J. Sawyer Tackles the Atomic Bomb with Alternate-History Novel, “The Oppenheimer Alternative”

  Robert J. Sawyer's novel is built around the ethical and moral ramifications of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which the author hopes will receive deep reflection on their 75th anniversaries.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/15/2020
  

  The Conspiracy Museum: A Speculative Address

  by Robin Sloan

  Where might the spread of conspiratorial thinking and evidence-free discourse lead? Read the opening address for the Smithsonian Museum of American Conspiracy from the year 2041. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Hong Kong Apocalypses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future

  by James Carter

  The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other.