What Next? Future Fiction Podcast Carl & Becca

Becca has watched Downsizing, a science fiction comedy drama in which Paul Safrânek decides to undergo a recently-invented procedure to shrink his body so he can start a new life in an experimental community, which he ends up doing alone when his wife backs out at the last minute.
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Carl has read a near-future which feels a little close to home. It's 2024 and Lauren Olamina is a young woman who can feel the pain of others and becomes displaced from her home. Several characters from various walks of life join her on her journey north through a troubled USA.
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Becca has watched Don't Look Up, in which two astronomers go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
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Becca has read Wool by Hugh Howey. A community lives in a silo beneath the surface of a ruined Earth. But something isn't right about life in the silo. What happens to those who venture outside?
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Carl has read The Way The End of Days Should Be by Diane Cook. In the short story collection Man v. Nature, we find a narrator whose house has been surrounded by water. He was prepared for the flood.... but his neighbours were not.
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Becca has read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin, which takes us to the summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, but it's not long before we discover that this paradise has a dark side.
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