Forbidding Planet

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 5, May 2010

 

Its premise is not that something terrible came to Earth--after all we were the ones, over the last 200 years, who sent all those billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere--but that we ourselves have landed on a strange, dangerous, unfamiliar new planet he calls Eaarth. Think Forbidden Planet without Robby the Robot; think The Tempest with neither Ariel nor Prospero.
 

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