I’ve been reading a lot about fungal fiction and the fungal turn recently. It gets to a point where it’s weird to be inside reading about mushrooms when there are actual mushrooms outside. Accordingly, I’ve been fungi spotting whenever I’ve been out, and even going on mushroom walks specifically to look for them.
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The Seep: Book of the Month August 2023
In The Seep by Chana Porter, utopia has been brought about by means of an alien invasion. What follows in this novella is a loving pastiche of contemporary utopian tropes. The emotional processing, sensitivity to ecological connections, and community-mindedness. Its diversity in terms of race, gender and sexuality. The abolition of money and the police. And the complete mitigation of human-induced climate change.
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