Book description
Spanning six continents and nine countries―from metropolitan Mexico City to the crumbling ancient aqueducts of Turkey, the receding coastline of Singapore to the coral shores of northern Australia―McSweeney’s 58 is wholly focused on climate change, with speculative fiction from ten contributors, made in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council…
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1 author picked McSweeney's Issue 58 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
McSweeney’s is a singular publisher of beautifully designed, smart, and unusual books. This one is a collection of writers devoted to imagining the effects of climate change in the near future. Sad, wistful, compelling stories, written from myriad global perspectives and based on climate science. One that has stuck with me is a story called “1740” by Asja Bakic, a Croatian writer. But if you prefer a big, classic novel in the “cli fi” literature, look to the works of Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Patrick, a married man in his early thirties with a white-collar job as his identity and alcohol as his salve, works himself to the bone, breaks down, and goes to Vegas with his friends - fellow hedonists under thin corporate veneers - to recoup his debts through blackjack. The weekend…
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