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Title: Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
Author: RICH NATHANIEL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 25/05/2021
Imprint: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Price: $53.00
Publishing status: Active
We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's clumsy signature. The old distinctions—between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact—have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation.
From <i>Odds Against Tomorrow</i> to <i>Losing Earth</i> to the film <i>Dark Waters</i> (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich’s stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In <i>Second Nature</i>, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we’ve lost? It is, What world do we want to create in its place?
ISBN: 9780374106034
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 304