Rock-time (Vol. 4 in the FicSci Series)

What is science communication? This collection, the fourth in the series, continues to argue that it can be creative writing aimed at the heart, rather than information directed to the mind.

FicSci playfully subverts the term ‘science fiction’ to offer an experimental process that explores the limits of imagination in relation to scientific possibility (and vice versa).  FicSci is an experiment in hybridised creative practice that induces new forms of knowledge-making between the hard sciences and the social world. This collection offers writing that emerged from an encounter bringing together creative writers with a geologist working on geochemistry and geochronology.

The presented research invited contemplation of scientific aspects of caves, chronologies and environments associated with human evolution in the Cradle of Humankind. The writings that emerged offer new creative engagements with deep time, rock formation and fossil dating.

Editors
Mehita Iqani and Wamuwi Mbao

Invited scientist
Tebogo Makhubela

Invited writers
Bonolo Llale, Buntu Makhedama, Cheri Hugo, Emma Paulet, Engela Duvenage, Gaireyah Fredericks, Joy Persis Lupiya, Suwilanji Siyangwe, Tayla Paige, Terry-Ann Adams, Thandiwe Gaobepe, Veli Mnisi