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Author | : Paul Di Filippo |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1472104676 |
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Indebted to Gaia Vince's New Scientist article 'Surviving in a Warmer World', Paul di Filippo's story depicts the life of Aurbindo Bandjalang in the climate change-ravaged planet of the Anthropocene Age. A member of the Reboot Civilisation, 'AB' is part of a new configuration of humanity, nine billion people crowded together in densely populated, high-rise areas on the quarter of the Earth's present-day land mass that remains above water. Di Filippo imagines a world in which the Earth's resources are pushed to their very limits and the human race, while dependent on the all-powerful Sun for its survival, is also subject to its devastating effect on Earth's climate.
Author | : Kage Baker |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1472104714 |
Download Mammoth Books presents The Books Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a time beyond the apocalypse, when the remnants of society are trying to restore life to the way it once was, three young circus children go exploring in the town where the circus is camped. As they wander the empty streets they stumble upon a building they will never forget, in which floor after floor is crammed with an abundance of books. This library is heaven for these child survivors of the apocalypse, but they may not be the only ones who feel this way.
Author | : Frederik Pohl |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1472104668 |
Download Mammoth Books presents Fermi and Frost Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Astronomer Harry Malibert is at an airport when nuclear war breaks out. Having been recognised by a fan, he is offered a seat on a plane to Iceland. Though most of Reykjavík has been destroyed by a thermonuclear weapon, the rest of the Iceland has been left untouched. Malibert and the remaining survivors must take advantage of Iceland's geology in preparing for the nuclear winter ahead of them, all the while calculating their chances of survival and contemplating the Fermi paradox: given the size and age of the universe, there ought to be many extraterrestrial civilisations, yet none has so far been found. Will Malibert and his group survive, and will they or their successors live to see proof of extraterrestrial civilisation?
Author | : Alastair Reynolds |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1472104692 |
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This story is not part of the Revelation Space series. It was developed from notes for an unwritten novel and maybe one day that novel will be completed, for we need to know the fate of the Earth. This story presents one of the more unusual apocalyptic ideas.
Author | : Elizabeth Bear |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147210465X |
Download Mammoth Books presents And the Deep Blue Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reminiscent of both "Damnation Alley" by Roger Zelazny and "The Postman" by David Brin, "And the Deep Blue Sea" offers almost three stories for the price of one.
Author | : Jessica White |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-25 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780367704360 |
Download Life Writing in the Anthropocene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Life Writing in the Anthropocene is a collection of timely and original approaches to the question of what constitutes a life, how that life is narrated, and what lives matter in autobiography studies in the Anthropocene. This era is characterised by the geoengineering impact of humans, which is shaping the planet's biophysical systems through the combustion of fossil fuels, production of carbon, unprecedented population growth, and mass extinction. These developments threaten the rights of humans and other-than-humans to just and sustainable lives. In exploring ways of representing life in the Anthropocene, this work articulates innovative literary forms such as ecobiography (the representation of a human subject's entwinement with their environment), phytography (writing the lives of plants), and ethological poetics (the study of nonhuman poetic forms), providing scholars and writers with innovative tools to think and write about our strange new world. In particular, its recognition on plant life reminds us of how human lives are entwined with vegetal lives. The creative and critical essays in this book, shaped by a number of Antipodean authors, bear witness to a multitude of lives and deaths. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Author | : Sharon Levy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199831548 |
Download Once and Future Giants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face the threat of another great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence, Once and Future Giants examines the extent of human influence on megafauna extinctions past and present, and explores innovative conservation efforts around the globe. The key to modern-day conservation, Levy suggests, may lie fossilized right under our feet.
Author | : Hélène Rajcak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Animals, Fossil |
ISBN | : 9781877579066 |
Download Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fascinating journey around the world of extinct animals, combining cartoons with naturalist drawings, and mythology with science.
Author | : Christophe Bonneuil |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784780812 |
Download The Shock of the Anthropocene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene” The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent “environmental awareness,” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch.
Author | : Joanna Zylinska |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2020-10-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781013284915 |
Download Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking about life (instead of just continuing to live it) when being confronted with the prospect of death: be it the death of individuals due to illness, accident or old age; the death of whole ethnic or national groups in wars and other forms of armed conflict; but also of whole populations, be they human or nonhuman. Even though Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene is first and foremost concerned with life-understood as both a biological and social phenomenon-it is the narrative about the impending death of the human population (i.e., about the extinction of the human species), that provides a context for its argument. "Anthropocene" names a geo-historical period in which humans are said to have become the biggest threat to life on earth. However, rather than as a scientific descriptor, the term serves here primarily as an ethical injunction to think critically about human and nonhuman agency in the universe. Restrained in tone yet ambitious in scope, the book takes some steps towards outlining a minimal ethics thought on a universal scale. The task of such minimal ethics is to consider how humans can assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe, across different scales, and how they can respond to the tangled mesh of connections and relations unfolding in it. Its goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink "life" and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist's method; it also includes a photographic project by the author. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.