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Arboreality

Arboreality is a 2022 book by Rebecca Campbell. It is a collection of six related stories. The stories are set on or near Vancouver Island and take place over several decades, from approximately 2050 to 2100. They describe a community's survival through a climate apocalypse. The book includes Campbell's story "An Important Failure", which won the 2021 Theodore Sturgeon Award. The entire collection won the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.

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Arboreality is a 2022 book by Rebecca Campbell. It is a collection of six related stories. The stories are set on or near Vancouver Island and take place over several decades, from approximately 2050 to 2100. They describe a community's survival through a climate apocalypse. The book includes Campbell's story "An Important Failure", which won the 2021 Theodore Sturgeon Award. The entire collection won the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.

Key claims

  1. date of birth: 2055 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. publication date: 2020 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of birth is "2055". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the publication date is "2020". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350356385

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.