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I'm reminded of the novel "Venomous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman, a deeply weird satire about the perverse incentives and behaviors engendered by the union of industrial consumption,…

There's a hilarious scene in Ned Beauman's "The Teleportation Accident" which revolves around Serge Voronoff’s monkey gland-grafting procedure. It's a wonderfully strange novel, se…

I also wondered if the recent success of sea otter conservation efforts would be in conflict with abalone restoration. However, there seems to be evidence that, at least in the cas…

Unfortunately habitats are not fungible. A square mile of dry land is unlikely to be suitable for the species which live in the wetlands of a tidal estuary.

Funnily enough, an essay cited by the article contains this quote in its opening paragraph: "...defining a heterogeneous orthodoxy for the coming Information Age..." [1] Presumably…

Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga involves interstellar travel on trains[1] which pass through artificial wormholes. I wouldn't recommend the books; he creates a world with so …