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Alternative title: Extinction
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 2 September 2020 of Science Write Now est. 2020 Science Write Now
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'We hope everyone who has landed on our pages over the past month has enjoyed our focus on women and science, and we welcome you to our next issue on Extinction. We initially shaped this theme around three novels released earlier this year – James Bradley’s Ghost Species Donna Mazza’s Fauna and Chris Flynn’s Mammoth (the subject of a conversation with Jess White to be uploaded next week) – which focus on de/extinction, whether through genetic engineering or voices from the past. These novels aren’t unusual in a country which has the highest rate of vertebrate mammal extinction in the world; what is interesting is that they have emerged in a year which has seen significant disruption to humans’ ecosystems. Perhaps fiction and Covid-19 might engender some empathy for the ways in which our fellow living creatures experience the devastating impact of humans.' (Introduction)

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* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Allotropes of Tini"Unbeknowst to him", Mark O'Flynn , single work poetry
Monotremei"He must have been tired", Mark O'Flynn , single work poetry
Perigee-Syzygy Mooni"supermoon—", Alicia Sometimes , single work poetry
Do Not Feed the Monkeys!!!, Helen Marshall , single work short story
Scorch, Aislinn Martin , single work essay

'Summer in Melbourne in the 1980s. It seemed like I was always peeling the back of my legs off sticky seats—the orange plastic chairs at school or the vinyl of the car, where turning on the ‘air-conditioning’ was using two hands to pull down a reluctant window. I spent years of my life in rooms known as ‘portables,’ some of which didn’t even have fans. The slides in the schoolground burned the flesh on the back of my young legs. Razz and cola Sunnyboys from the school canteen came close to fracturing my emerging adult teeth'
How We Write the Future (Panel), Rose Michael (interviewer), Deanne Sheldon-Collins (interviewer), single work interview
Inhabiting the Tesseracti"Between our adjacent rooms the voile twitches liminal, exposes the", Shey Marque , single work poetry
States of Matteri"So we make goo to prove", Tracy Ryan , single work poetry
Aotearoai"totara, tuatara, tomate", Denise Fowler , single work poetry
Under the Microscope, Kathryn Fry , sequence poetry
The Christmas Cruisei"William J Dakin meets Isobel and her sister", Kathryn Fry , single work poetry
It Was All a Matter of Practicei"Professor Dakin invites his secretary, Isobel,", Kathryn Fry , single work poetry
Legacyi"Who can’t love the wafting nudibranchs,", Kathryn Fry , single work poetry
Blue-Shifti"She’s tidying the grandkids’ room", Charlotte Clutterbuck , single work poetry
Cloudy Question Timei"Stratus in ragged shreds", Charlotte Clutterbuck , single work poetry
Space Chimps (i) Property of Holloman Aerospace Medicali"The", Benjamin Dodds , single work poetry
Space Chimps (ii) Enosi"Remember your training, man.", Benjamin Dodds , single work poetry
[50] Tini"I turn to pick up four empty cans,", Tricia Dearborn , single work poetry
[11] Sodiumi"a metal so light it floats", Tricia Dearborn , single work poetry
[82] Leadi"Inorganic chemistry lab. A rack of test tubes", Tricia Dearborn , single work poetry
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