SF author Jennifer Lott on optimism in fiction even when gods govern.

Nina Munteanu on sustainability as seen through the lens of popular TNT series Snowpiercer.

Just who had the right to govern the newly organized sport of ice hockey, in the early days of the Stanley Cup? Craig Bowlsby describes governance in Hockey.

People sometimes fear politics, but it’s at the heart of who we are as human beings. As much of our fiction is about people, understanding the politics of the world your characters are living in can be critical in ensuring the world is real enough to such your reader in. Can you have a hereditary monarch in a supposedly enlightened science fiction age? Possibly, but your readers will require you to work hard to reasonably bring it about.

Nina Munteanu interview on sustainability with Canadian SF author Holly Schofield.

Poet Chuck Fraser believes, with LF, that It is the duty of the poet to record atrocities of the day.

Sustainability is a fractal phenomenon. A look at some theories addressing its complexities by Nina Munteanu.

Post-capitalist futures explored by ecological SF author Nina Munteanu.

Nina Munteanu interview with Lynda Williams, author of the Okal Rel Saga.