• World-class novelists envision the terrors of impending climate change
• Introduction by Bill McKibben
• Royalties from sales go to 350.org
• 130 x 200 mm
• 200 pages

While the general mood of the stories is as downbeat as you would expect in a volume whose theme is environmental crisis, there are flashes of dark humour: as in Toby Litt’s Newromancer, in which the government invokes the Spirit of the Blitz to disguise a new blackout, while the population choose to organize an endless party. There is high-quality prose here too: David Mitchell’s elegant, recursive story The Siphoners is a real gem and Arzèstula by Wu Ming1 convincingly sketches the outlines of a viable post-collapse society.

A good reason to buy this book is that royalties go to 350.org, a grassroots climate change organization. An equally compelling reason is to read 10 authors at the top of their game, tackling the most pressing issue of our generation.

Peter Whittaker, New Internationalist, 4 stars

These are the jolts we dearly need; this is a serious business we’re involved in.

Bill McKibben, from the introduction

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Troth Wells - one of the founders of the New Internationalist cooperative

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