Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future

Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction explores how speculative fiction can address the challenges of the Anthropocene, including the destruction and protection of the natural environment, the relationship between human and non-human inhabitants, the role of myth, the political dimensions, the threat of the Apocalypse, and the role of post-apocalyptic narratives. It examines the works of various authors and demonstrates how speculative fiction can alter readers' perception of their duties and responsibilities towards their communities and the world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction is a collection of essays that explore the challenges of the Anthropocene through a range of novels. The essays examine the destruction and protection of the natural environment, the relationship between human and non-human inhabitants of the planet, the role of myth in the shaping of and combat against the Anthropocene, the political dimensions of the Anthropocene, the ensuing threat of the Apocalypse, and the role of post-apocalyptic narratives. The authors examine the works of Patricia Briggs, M.R. Carey, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Ursula K. Le Guin, N.K. Jemisin, Stephenie Meyer, China Miéville, James Patterson, Maggie Stiefvater, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Scott Westfield. Their essays demonstrate that speculative fiction can alter the readers perception of their duties and responsibilities towards their communities and the world, so that the threat of human-wrought destruction might ultimately be averted.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793636652