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.