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The Modern Bestiary
This wild and wonderful list is excerpted from The Modern Bestiary. Mole Salamanders (Ambystoma spp.) “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle” was the 1970s Continue reading
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The Human Costs of Environmental Extraction
You may know Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton from her wildly popular, pioneering web comic Hark! A Vagrant, but before that success, she was another young person trying to pay off her Continue reading
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The Literature of the Underground
Orion‘s Autumn issue is about finding the wildness in walls, borders, and land that belongs to no one. And what’s more wild and uncharted than the cavernous worlds beneath our feet? Continue reading
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In Cloud Gardens, the Dystopian Becomes Sublime
In February 2022, novelist, futurist, and Orion contributor Ken Liu joined video game designer Liz Fiacco to discuss Cloud Gardens as part of the CSI Skill Tree series, hosted by Joey Eschrich at Arizona State University’s Continue reading
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First Look: The Language of Trees
Inspired by her love of forests, environmental activism, and the medieval Ogham alphabet which used characters called feda, “trees,” or nin, “forking branches,” due to their shape, artist Katie Holten created Continue reading