*Yeah, I wrote for it. My story's set a thousand years after massive climate change.
WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE
New Science Fiction on Climate Change
Edited and with an introduction by Gordon Van Gelder
Preface by Elizabeth Kolbert
Publishing February 21, 2011
“[T]here is a lot about global warming that we don’t know. As the planet heats up, almost certainly some regions will experience more intense droughts, but which regions, exactly, and how intense will those droughts be? Monsoon patterns will shift, and produce flooding, but which cities will be submerged? ....The greatest unknown of all is, of course, how people, collectively, will respond. Will they be chastened? Genocidal? Or will they just muddle along, behind growing seawalls and shrinking coasts? Science—even social science—can’t answer questions like this, which is why we turn to science fiction. Welcome to the Greenhouse!”
—from the preface by Elizabeth Kolbert
Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming, we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction, and certain transformation, of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities.
What will our new world look like? How will we—can we—adapt? The clash of a rapidly changing environment with earth’s self-styled ruling species, humans, provides ample creative fodder for this riveting anthology of original science fiction. In Welcome to the Greenhouse, award-winning editor Gordon Van Gelder has brought together sixteen new speculative stories by some of the most imaginative writers of our time, both familiar names and relative unknowns. Terrorists, godlike terraformers, and humans, both manipulative and hapless, populate these pages
The variety of stories here reflects the possibilities of our future: grim, hopeful, fantastic and absurd.
Included is new work by Brian W. Aldiss, Jeff Carlson, Judith Moffett, Matthew Hughes, Gregory Benford, Michael Alexander, Bruce Sterling, Joseph Green, Pat MacEwen, Alan Dean Foster, David Prill, George Guthridge, Paul Di Filippo, Chris Lawson, Ray Vukcevich and M. J. Locke.
About the editor:
Gordon Van Gelder is the editor and publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has twice won the coveted Hugo Award for Best Editor, and twice won the World Fantasy Award.
The author of the preface, Elizabeth Kolbert, is a writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catatrophe and is one of the foremost environmental journalists of our day.
“In assembling the book, I tried to get a wide variety of responses to the issue of climate change, from the comic to the grave (one contributor told me, ‘I can’t find anything optimistic about global warming’), from the hopeful to the despondent, from the realistic to the wildly imaginative. A couple of stories seek answers to the climate change issues that we face, but more of the stories ask questions.”
—from the introduction by Gordon Van Gelder
Publication: February 21, 2011
Paperback, $17, 978-1-935928-27-0
E-book, $10, 978-1-935928-26-3
336 pages
For more information, review copies, or an interview with the editor, contact Fern Diaz at [email protected] or (212) 514-6485.
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