Via the Guardian Book Blog I learn of a conference at the University of East Anglia that purported to unite creative writers and environmental scientists to see what fiction could do to help save the planet. And guess what? Yep, you got it, not a single science fiction writer involved. Because, you know, what would a bunch of pathetic geeks know about science, or saving the planet? They’d just want to blow it up with their ray guns, right?

They did discuss Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, though.