"The Rupture"

Title"The Rupture"
Year for Search2016
AuthorsOlder, Malka [Ann](b. 1977)
Secondary TitleCapricious (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Volume / Editionno. 3
Date PublishedApril 2016
KeywordsFemale author, Latinx author, US author
Annotation

The story is set on a dystopian future Earth in which most animals and many plants are extinct, and the Earth regularly has major earthquakes and new volcanoes that become tourist sites. The story is told from the point-of-view of a visitor from another planet who initially visits Earth to attend university.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 17-35

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The Latinx female author has a doctorate from the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations in Paris and has been a Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk Management at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. See her brief statement “Thirsty for New” in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim. Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 396-97

Full Text

2016 Older, Malka [Ann] (b. 1977). “The Rupture.” Capricious (Aotearoa/New Zealand), no. 3 (April 2016). Rpt. in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 17-35. PSt

The story is set on a dystopian future Earth in which most animals and many plants are extinct, and the Earth regularly has major earthquakes and new volcanoes that become tourist sites. The story is told from the point-of-view of a visitor from another planet who initially visits Earth to attend university. The Latinx female author has a doctorate from the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations in Paris and has been a Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk Management at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. See her brief statement “Thirsty for New” in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim. Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 396-97.