Tomorrow's Parties

Life in the Anthropocene

Jonathan Strahan

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MIT Press
22 November 2022

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short Stories Sci-Fi; Time Travel

Series: Twelve Tomorrows

"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."

By: Jonathan Strahan
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262544436
ISBN 10: 0262544431
Series: Twelve Tomorrows
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 22 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Science Fiction in the Anthropocene vii Jonathan Strahan 1 It's Science Over Capitalism: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Imperative of Hope 1 James Bradley 2 Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley 11 Meg Elison 3 Down and Out in Exile Park 27 Tade Thompson 4 Once Upon a Future in the West 47 Daryl Gregory 5 Crisis Actors 75 Greg Egan 6 When the Tide Rises 95 Sarah Gailey 7 I Give You the Moon 115 Justina Robson 8 Do You Hear the Fungi Sing? 135 Chen Qiufan, translated by Emily Jin 9 Legion 157 Malka Older 10 The Ferryman 173 Saad Z. Hossain 11 After the Storm 189 James Bradley Artwork: Sean Bodley 213 Acknowledgments 217 Contributors 219

Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. Reviews editor for Locus magazine and consulting editor for Tor.com, he cohosts and produces the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.

Reviews for Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene

"""A disarmingly credible portrait of what life and work might be like in a future that may already be here, and that may or may not be reclaimable."" —Locus Magazine ""A great lineup of stories."" —Toronto Star ""A treat box full of riveting narratives about lived experiences in the Anthropocene. Together they present a compelling narrative . . . that the richness of life will endure past most changes."" —Physics World ""Packed with solid stories, including a handful of gems, and succeeds in its aim to explore our future with rational optimism."" —Engineering & Technology"