NEW TITLE:
I’M WITH THE BEARS: SHORT STORIES FROM A DAMAGED PLANET
Edited by MARK MARTIN
Introduction by BILL MCKIBBEN
With contributions by Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, T.C. Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson, Helen Simpson, and Wu Ming 1
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“10 authors at the top of their game, tackling themost pressing issue of our generation.” – NEW INTERNATIONALIST
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LONDON EVENT:
November 14, 2011, The Alley Cat
THE BOOK STOPS HERE, with TOBY LITT and HELEN SIMPSON
A free literary party night
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The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to mankind's unwitting creation of a tough new planet. From T. C. Boyle’s account of early eco-activists, to Nathaniel Rich’s comic fantasy about a marine biologist haunted by his youth, and David Mitchell’s vision of a near future where oil sells for $800 a barrel—these ten provocative, occasionally chilling, sometimes satirical stories bring a human reality to disasters of inhuman proportions.
Royalties from the sale of I'm with the Bears will go to 350.org<http://www.350.org/>, an international grassroots movement working to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Full list of contents:
Introduction
By Bill McKibben
The Siskiyou, July 1989
By T. C. Boyle
Zoogoing
By Lydia Millet
Sacred Space
By Kim Stanley Robinson
Hermie
By Nathaniel Rich
Diary of an Interesting Year
By Helen Simpson
Newromancer
By Toby Litt
The Siphoners
By David Mitchell
Arzèstula
By Wu Ming1
The Tamarisk Hunter
By Paolo Bacigalupi
Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet
By Margaret Atwood
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Further praise for I’M WITH THE BEARS:
“All the writing in this volume is excellent ” – THE TIMES (SATURDAY REVIEW)
“The line-up of mostly British and North American talent is impressive – T.C. Boyle, Toby Litt, David Mitchell – and while they sometimes bash you around the head with a blunt instrument (Nathaniel Rich), the best are fierce and fearless, including Helen Simpson’s acerbic, apocalyptic Diary Of An Interesting Year” – METRO
“The high point for me was Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Tamarisk Hunter ... More than any other story in the collection, it makes climate change feel real.” – NEW SCIENTIST
“A wonderful idea” – DAILY MAIL
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2057149/SHORT-STORIES.html
“About what might happen if our worst nightmares come true” – EVENING STANDARD
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MARGARET ATWOOD is a Booker-Prize winning poet and author of many acclaimed novels. PAOLO BACIGALUPI is the author of the sci-fi novel THE WIND UP GIRL, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards. T.C. BOYLE has a long list of books to his credit, including THE WOMEN. TOBY LITT has written eleven novels and story collections. Author of five superlative novels, LYDIA MILLET was one of three finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. WU MING1 is one part of the quartet of authors who write under the name Wu Ming who published the groundbreaking novel MANITUANA. DAVID MITCHELL has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize; his novels include CLOUD ATLAS. NATHANIEL RICH won many plaudits for his debut novel, THE MAYOR’S TONGUE. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is the Hugo and Nebula prize-winning author of the Mars Trilogy and a trilogy of novels about climate change, titled Science in the Capital. HELEN SIMPSON is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist; in 1993, she was selected as one of Granta's twenty "Best British Novelists Under Forty." The writer and environmentalist BILL MCKIBBEN is the founder of 350.org, which in 2010 organized what CNN called "the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history."
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 744 3 / $14.95/£8.99/$17.50CAN / Paperback Original / 208 pages
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