- Taschenbuch: 196 Seiten
- Verlag: Verso (29. September 2011)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1844677443
- ISBN-13: 978-1844677443
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 13,1 x 1,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 76.798 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"10 authors at the top of their game, tackling the most pressing issue of our generation." - New Internationalist "The stories dazzle the reader with their imaginative range and depth."-Independent "The line-up of mostly British and North American talent is impressive - TC Boyle, Toby Litt, David Mitchell - and while they sometimes bash you around the head with a blunt instrument (Nathaniel Rich), the best are fierce and fearless, including Helen Simpson's acerbic, apocalyptic Diary Of An Interesting Year" - Metro "All the writing in this volume is excellent." - The Times (Saturday Review) "The high point for me was Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tamarisk Hunter ... More than any other story in the collection, it makes climate change feel real." - New Scientist "A wonderful idea." - Daily Mail "About what might happen if our worst nightmares come true." - Evening Standard
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The magnitude of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to mankind's unwitting creation of a tough new planet. From T.C. Boyle's account of early eco-activists, to David Mitchell's vision of a near future where civilization dwindles as oil sells for $800 a barrel - these stories blend speculative and literary fiction and range across time. The aim is to make the danger posed by climate change as accessible to the imagination as subjects more common to the best of contemporary fiction. Royalties from I'm With the Bears will go to 350.org, an international grassroots movement working to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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15. Dezember 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
Although some of the money from this book is going to fight climate change, there is not a single story about climate change being stopped. I suppose that would be too implausible. Instead the stories are arranged to form a bleak narrative in which we first fail to prevent climate catastrophe, and then we suffer from it, and then (with a few exceptions) we fail to recover.
I thought there were a lot of boring bits and preachy bits, but also some great stuff. My favorites are the four in the middle of the book: "Hermie" is a gut punch of a story about a hermit crab who was a boy's imaginary friend, and reappears years later to seek his help. "Diary of an Interesting Year" is a very well written story of a woman surviving horrible times. "Newromancer" is the most alive story in the book, about young people having forbidden fun under a decrepit police state that justifies itself with ecology. And "The Siphoners" combines a story of the future with an ancient folk tale, both about the culling of old people. "Arzestula" is uneven, but I appreciate its optimism, and it should have gone at the end of the book.
I thought there were a lot of boring bits and preachy bits, but also some great stuff. My favorites are the four in the middle of the book: "Hermie" is a gut punch of a story about a hermit crab who was a boy's imaginary friend, and reappears years later to seek his help. "Diary of an Interesting Year" is a very well written story of a woman surviving horrible times. "Newromancer" is the most alive story in the book, about young people having forbidden fun under a decrepit police state that justifies itself with ecology. And "The Siphoners" combines a story of the future with an ancient folk tale, both about the culling of old people. "Arzestula" is uneven, but I appreciate its optimism, and it should have gone at the end of the book.
Devastating and necessary. Some amazing stories here.
23. April 2012
Format:Taschenbuch
This collection of short stories, each addressing climate change in some way, is depressing, as another reviewer said. I can't imagine what that reader was hoping for, but yes, the devastation of our environment and our relationship with the natural world is a bit of a bummer, yes.
That said, these stories ranged from the utterly bleak ( T.C. Boyle's The Siskiyou was very disturbing) to the absolutely haunting (Lydia Millet's Zoogoing- I've read it 3 times, and it is still echoing in my mind) to looks at what water deals taking place now might mean for the American Southwest (in Paolo Bacigalupi's stunning The Tamarisk Hunter).
These stories all have a common theme, but the incredible slate of authors each use their own inimitable voices, and the chorus of them together is powerful.
Wonderful.
That said, these stories ranged from the utterly bleak ( T.C. Boyle's The Siskiyou was very disturbing) to the absolutely haunting (Lydia Millet's Zoogoing- I've read it 3 times, and it is still echoing in my mind) to looks at what water deals taking place now might mean for the American Southwest (in Paolo Bacigalupi's stunning The Tamarisk Hunter).
These stories all have a common theme, but the incredible slate of authors each use their own inimitable voices, and the chorus of them together is powerful.
Wonderful.
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Title's the Best Part
3. März 2012
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As I earnestly struggled to push my way through this book, I was feeling waves of shock: "Is 21st century fiction so bad that this muck is getting a pass?!" "Whose glowing review of this book caused me to buy this thing?! My B/S filter obviously has a major blind spot." "A lot of these writers have great credentials. Never again forget what credentials are worth." "Who is the editor?! I mean good god!" "If this is a product of the current state of environmentalism, our world is hopelessly screwed." If the point of the book was to make me feel really depressed about the ecosystem, then it succeeded in spades.
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