This plague will of course hit hardest with those who have the least, and who are not able to self-isolate. As William Gibson<\/strong> was reported to have said: ‘The future is here – it’s just not evenly distributed yet.<\/em><\/a>‘ The Vulture<\/strong> <\/em>have listed their 20 Best Pandemic Books <\/em><\/a>for reading during our current viral crisis. Our own story with this current virus follows a plethora of climate catastrophic events that do indeed seem to be heralding the End Times <\/em><\/a>– is this Nature’s backlash, for all that has been wrought upon our fragile Earth, by humanity in the Anthropocene?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What should happen, I hope, once the painful cost of this pandemic recedes, is that it is no longer a case of ‘Business as Usual’. NO! Business has been steadily killing our planet, and ourselves along with it. Time for a new world, as Urula K Le Guin <\/em><\/strong><\/a>called for, not long before she joined the great SF Pantheon in the Sky – a better, more collective and equitable world. A world both of and beyond Water Must Fall <\/a><\/em>(2020: soon to be released by NewCon Press<\/strong><\/em>); a world of brighter futures, some captured in short in my latest anthology, from the excellent Luna Press<\/em><\/strong> (2019) ‘Learning Monkey and Crocodile.<\/em><\/a>‘ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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