Eckard Smuts

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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Recent Posts

A Writing Retreat in Betty's Bay
2025-07-01

A few weeks ago, I attended a writing retreat in Betty’s Bay with some of my talented colleagues from SU’s Department of English. The weather was cold, wintry – perfect writing conditions. A baboon did the rounds past the house each morning, sending the dogs that had come along into high dudgeon. ...
Reading Notes: Ministry for the Future
2024-04-23

Kim Stanley Robinson's hard sci-fi climate novel The Ministry for the Future is part of an Honours course I teach on utopian literature. When I first read the book, I made a brief note for each of its 106 (!) short chapters, , as a kind of map or navigation aid to help me in my teaching. ...