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Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
| Author: | Jonathan Strahan |
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The MIT Press, 2022 |
| Series: | Twelve Tomorrows: Book 7 |
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1. Twelve Tomorrows 2013 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.
We are living in the Anthropocene - an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorrow's Parties, science fiction authors speculate how we might be able to live and even thrive through the advancing Anthropocene. In ten original stories by writers from around the world, an interview with celebrated writer Kim Stanley Robinson, and a series of intricate and elegant artworks by Sean Bodley, Tomorrow's Parties takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair.
In these stories - by writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and Australia - a young man steals from delivery drones; a political community lives on an island made of ocean-borne plastic waste; and a climate change denier tries to unmask "crisis actors." Climate-changed life also has its pleasures and epiphanies, as when a father in Africa works to make his son's dreams of "Viking adventure" a reality, and an IT professional dispatched to a distant village encounters a marvelous predigital fungal network. Contributors include Pascall Prize for Criticism winner James Bradley, Hugo Award winners Greg Egan and Sarah Gailey, Philip K Dick Award winner Meg Elison, and New York Times bestselling author Daryl Gregory.
Contents:
- Introduction: Science Fiction in the Anthropocene - essay by Jonathan Strahan
- It's Science over Capitalism: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Imperative of Hope - interview of Kim Stanley Robinson by James Bradley
- Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley - short story by Meg Elison
- Down and Out in Exile Park - short story by Tade Thompson
- Once Upon a Future in the West - novelette by Daryl Gregory
- Crisis Actors - short story by Greg Egan
- When the Tide Rises - novelette by Sarah Gailey
- I Give You the Moon - novelette by Justina Robson
- Do You Hear the Fungi Sing? - novelette by Chen Qiufan
- Legion - short story by Malka Older
- The Ferryman - short story by Saad Z. Hossain
- After the Storm - novelette by James Bradley
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