The Millions

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Famous Men isn’t quite a sci-fi novel, but something more like its inverse—a book less concerned with alternate universes than their absence. The post Parallel Lives Lost: K Chess’s ‘Famous Men Who Never Lived’ appeared first on The Millions.

Los Angeles Times

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We should have been much better prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm not talking about on a federal or local level - although President Donald Trump's firing of the pandemic experts and ignoring the medical community during early weeks, not to men

STAT

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The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine appears to work just as well against a fast-spreading variant first identified in the U.K. as it does against earlier forms of the coronavirus.

Literary Hub

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Sit down and have a cup of something to soothe yourself. Then try one or all or any of these books which I highly recommend for respite in a time of pandemic—riveting stories of societal collapse, plagues, near-death experiences, distant futures on b

NPR

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People have been telling stories about pandemics for thousands of years — once, they were tales of divine retribution, but today they're often rooted in current events like the coronavirus outbreak.

Guernica Magazine

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The writer dubbed the “Weird Thoreau” on ecological fiction and the cult of climate-change denial.

The Atlantic

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These films aren’t all bleak—or obviously about an apocalypse. But each has timeless insights into how humans respond in times of crisis.

Woman

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A recent* study has found that putting the lid down before flushing could help stop the spread of COVID-19. This is because the virus is still present in faeces weeks after symptoms have stopped. Flushing kicks 60% of infectious particles one metre a

Writer's Digest

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“What kind of writer do you want to be?” That question was asked of me when I was 13. I’d been dragged along to a party at a penthouse in New York City. It was 1971 and the person asking the question was the legendary writer Richard Matheson, author

India Today

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A reinfection is where the virus enters the body a second time and infects the person. This is different from reactivation, where the virus remains in an inactive state in the body and later becomes active again First proven case of a Covid reinfecti

The Millions

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1. Imagine organizing a small get-together, a few friends and acquaintances at a neighborhood bar. It’s all very low-key. The day comes; friends arrive. You order cocktails. You chit-chat. In walks the President of the United States, with secret serv

SFX

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RELEASED 21 JANUARY 496 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Derek Miller Publisher Jo Fletcher Books Post-apocalypse stories often focus just on the nitty-gritty of how to survive when the world ends, but there’s a more challenging question: what happens w

The Millions

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Debut novelist Kimi Eisele's list of her favorite world-ending art, including works by Hieronymus Bosch, the United Nations, and Dr. Seuss. The post Thirteen Ways Inside My Apocalyptic Heart appeared first on The Millions.

Oxygen

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If premium cable is any indication of things to come, it’s only a matter of time until a quickly mutating virus turns us all to zombies, a wave of fires blazes across the country, or an alien species invades the planet and forces us to lick their spa

NPR

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Writer-director Bertrand Bonello uses the tale of a Haitian zombie to explore intergenerational racial trauma in this quiet, moody film.

Woman's Weekly

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The antibiotic azithromycin has shown promise in the treatment of children with severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Although antibiotics are not usually useful in viral infections, azithromycin has unique properties. In the study, chi

NPR

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The man was in his 70s and had been living at a nursing facility near Seattle that's now suspected of being the site of America's first outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Literary Hub

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We human beings are meaning-hungry creatures. This is especially true when it comes to encounters with death or other severe forms of trauma. No wonder that, in the case of both nuclear and climate threats, many turn to ideas and narratives associate

The Big Issue

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2020 may have brought the unexpected with a global pandemic that transformed life as we know it – but even the troubled year didn’t bring zombies. Sure, there were many parallels between the zombie apocalypses so popular in fiction, such as the disc

Woman's Weekly

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(£7.99, SHORT BOOKS) This round-up of the coronavirus crisis is written by science journalist and TV doctor Michael Mosley. The mini guide explores everything you need to know about the virus, including the race for a vaccine, and how to bolster your

Saturday Star

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“If you look at a lot of the European countries and the US, what they called their first wave was to a large extent in the major centres. And now if you look at what’s happening in most of those countries … and we’re not there yet. These countries ha

Literary Hub

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It was summer, and most of Australia was on fire. Seasonal bushfires have always been part of Australian life, but never like those that rang in 2020. Fire fronts met in regions so remote humans rarely visited, and roared towards cities, so hot they

Post South Africa

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COVID-19 is a faceless enemy. It therefore makes it difficult to fight. The only time we know it is around is when someone we know falls ill or dies. And what’s more terrifying, we could be the victim. For many months, we have been reading the statis

Literary Hub

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I can chart the progress of my life through the types of apocalypse I have feared. As a child, the endings I imagined were natural, even cosmic: the land swallowed by the sea, the sun swallowing the earth. When I was an adolescent the man-made came t

NPR

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Why read horror stories when the real world is scary enough on its own? Because horror does more than scare us — it teaches us how to live with being scared, and how to fight back against evil.

NPR

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"The main reason for the declaration is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries," said World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Saturday Star

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THE coronavirus vaccine is so coveted that two women in Florida, US, went to extremes to get inoculated: They dressed as if they were elderly. ■

Literary Hub

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What effect can geography and history have on a work of fiction? In his introduction to the American edition of his novel The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers describes the process of researching his novel. He’d left London for life closer to where he’d

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics/Black Label Writer/artist: Daniel Warren Johnson ISSUES 1-4 Optimism has always been a vital element of Wonder Woman’s character – right from her creation, she’s been forever looking to find the best in humanity,

NPR

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Disney Channel's new high school zombie musical; The Walking Dead's ratings reign; the buzz for the new book Dread Nation: In pop culture, the undead persist after our brains.