Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.
We are living in the AnthropoceneтАФan 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 TomorrowтАЩs 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, TomorrowтАЩs Parties takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair.
In these storiesтАФby writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and AustraliaтАФa 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 тАЬcrisis actors.тАЭ Climate-changed life also has its pleasures and epiphanies, as when a father in Africa works to make his sonтАЩs dreams of тАЬViking adventureтАЭ 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.