Love in the Anthropocene
An audacious collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, "Love in the Anthropocene" taps into one of the hottest topics of the day, literally and figuratively — our corrupted environment — to deliver five related stories (“Flyfishing,” “Carbon,” “Holiday,” “Shanghai,” and “Zoo”) that investigate a future bereft of natural environments, introduced with a discussion on the Anthropocene — the Age of Humanity — and concluding with an essay on love.
The “love” these writer/philosophers investigate and celebrate is as much a constant as is human despoliation of the planet; it is what defines us, and it is what may save us. Science fiction, literary fiction, philosophical meditation, manifesto? All the above. This unique work is destined to become an essential companion — a primer, really — to life in the 21st century.
Bio
Bonnie Nadzam earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Arizona State University in 2004.
Praise for this book
Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam cause us to think — and to feel — what life will be like in a future where nothing is left that is spontaneous, accidental or uncontrolled. A beautiful — and frightening — book.
Naomi Oreskes Professor, history of science, Harvard; author, "Merchants of Doubt"
