I'm With the Bears: Short Stories From a Damaged Planet - Softcover

Mark Martin; Bill McKibben; Margaret Atwood; David Mitchell; Kim Stanley Robinson; Wu Ming 1; Paolo Bacigalupi; T.C. Boyle; Toby Litt; Lydia Millet; Nathaniel Rich; Helen Simpson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677443 ISBN 13: 9781844677443

Publisher: Verso, 2011

Synopsis

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 the deterioration of our global habitat. 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 this book will go to 350.org, an international grassroots movement working to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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About the Author

MARGARET ATWOOD is a Booker-Prize winning poet and author of many acclaimed novels, including The Year of the Flood. 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 and Luther Blissett have published the groundbreaking novels Manituana and Q. DAVID MITCHELL has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize; his novels include Cloud Atlas and most recently The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. 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 that go under the title 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 author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, among other titles; he 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.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844677443
• ISBN 13: 9781844677443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208