Sawyer’s Calculating God and Extinction’s In China Miéville’s Three Moments of an ExplosionĬhapter 7: The Tragic Comedy of Humanity: Life after Species Extinction in Éric Chevillard’s SansĬhapter 8: Godly Mass Extinction: Robert J. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeerĬhapter 4: “My Heart Slowly Cracks”: Making Kin and Living through Extinction in Erdrich’sĬhapter 5: “You Are Here”: Extinction as Familial in The Broken EarthĬhapter 6: The Uncanny, the Weird, and the Eerie: Hyperobjects and Anthropocenic Modalities Introduction: The Urgency of Story During the Sixth Mass ExtinctionĬhapter 1: Telling Stories about Dying (Out): Thomas Pynchon’s Global Novels and theĬhapter 2: “Life Finds a Way”: Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and Extinction AnxietyĬhapter 3: “The Integrity of Nature”: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in theįictions of H.P. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognized climate fiction ('cli-fi') with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction’s engagements with human driven extinction.

The 6th extinction book