Second Nature
Scenes from a World Remade
Published on 29. July 2021
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-374-10603-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich's stories and reporting have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, 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?
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-374-10603-4 (9780374106034)
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Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth and the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor's Tongue. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New Orleans.