{"product_id":"tomorrows-parties-isbn-9780262544436","title":"Tomorrow's Parties","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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 \u003ci\u003eTomorrow’s Parties\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eTomorrow’s Parties\u003c\/i\u003e takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Daryl Gregory.Introduction: Science Fiction in the Anthropocene vii\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Strahan\u003cbr\u003e1 It's Science Over Capitalism: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Imperative of Hope 1\u003cbr\u003eJames Bradley\u003cbr\u003e2 Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley 11\u003cbr\u003eMeg Elison\u003cbr\u003e3 Down and Out in Exile Park 27\u003cbr\u003eTade Thompson\u003cbr\u003e4 Once Upon a Future in the West 47\u003cbr\u003eDaryl Gregory\u003cbr\u003e5 Crisis Actors 75\u003cbr\u003eGreg Egan\u003cbr\u003e6 When the Tide Rises 95\u003cbr\u003eSarah Gailey\u003cbr\u003e7 I Give You the Moon 115\u003cbr\u003eJustina Robson\u003cbr\u003e8 Do You Hear the Fungi Sing? 135\u003cbr\u003eChen Qiufan, translated by Emily Jin\u003cbr\u003e9 Legion 157\u003cbr\u003eMalka Older \u003cbr\u003e10 The Ferryman 173\u003cbr\u003eSaad Z. Hossain\u003cbr\u003e11 After the Storm 189\u003cbr\u003eJames Bradley\u003cbr\u003eArtwork: Sean Bodley 213\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 217\u003cbr\u003eContributors 219\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocus Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A great lineup of stories.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Toronto Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhysics World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Packed with solid stories, including a handful of gems, and succeeds in its aim to explore our future with rational optimism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Engineering \u0026amp; Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Our future is likely to be preoccupied by climate disaster. But what will that actually look like, and how will we find ways to keep going? Ten science fiction and fantasy authors explore our possible futures. Malka Older writes about surveillance being turned into a force for good; Tade Thompson explores the possibility of a utopia built on a floating island of plastics. These stories are interesting, thought-provoking and hopeful.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award–winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. Reviews editor for \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and consulting editor for Tor.com, he cohosts and produces the Hugo-nominated \u003ci\u003eCoode Street Podcast\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299974435045,"sku":"NP9780262544436","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544436.jpg?v=1767742799","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tomorrows-parties-isbn-9780262544436","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}