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And welcome to the Cool zone media book club. the only book club where you don't have to do the reading, because I do it for you.

I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and today, how do you feel about folklore?

How do you feel about children's bedtime stories?

How do you feel about spider mecks?? How do you feel about Spider-Mex?

Today, we are reading The Cloud Weaver Song by Salt and Pepper,

which blends the lyricism and mythopo-poetics of folklore

with just gorgeous sci-fi imagery about climate refugees, ancestry,

Spider-Mex, I mentioned the the spider mechs, I think,

and struggling to convince established power structures, the world is changing. It's also a story

that is steeped in the language and police names of Eritrea, which is a small country in the

Horn of East Africa that shares a border with Ethiopia and Sudan.

This story is from a 2021 collection called Afterglow, climate fiction for future ancestors,

which itself started as a story contest from Grist called Imagine 2020,

that challenged readers to, quote, envision the next 180 years of equitable

climate progress, whether built on abundance or adaptation, reform, or a new understanding of

survival. These stories provide flickers of hope, even joy, and serve as a springboard

for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality,

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