Published 1 April 20111 June 2012 · Writing / Main Posts / Culture Rjurik Davidson: Imagining new worlds Editorial team For Overland 202, we thought we’d try something different – author interviews and other supplementaries to accompany our published pieces, so you can get more of an insight into how these pieces came to be. Here, Rjurik Davidson, associate editor at Overland and author of The Library of Forgotten Books, chats with Overland intern Clare Strahan about writing politically engaged fiction, free will and determinism, complicating fiction, the radical ’60s, sexism and the New Wave, inner space and outer space … and his latest Overland essay, ‘Imagining New Worlds’. Part I Part II The Library of Forgotten Books is published by PS Publishing. Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 16 August 202416 August 2024 · Poetry pork lullaby Panda Wong but an alive pig / roots in the soil /turning it over / with its snout / softening the ground / is this a hymn 17 July 202417 July 2024 · Writing “What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad Dashiell Moore The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded that "chronic survival" is not merely an act of enduring but a profound declaration of existence.