Tomorrow's Parties, Life in the Anthropocene

Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.We are living in the Anthropocenean 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 Tomorrows 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, Tomorrows Parties takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair.In these storiesby writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and Australiaa young man steals from delivery drones; a political community lives on an island made...