Loosed upon the World

Loosed upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction

Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine, one of the first anthologies of climate fiction a cutting-edge genre made popular by Margaret Atwood.
Is it the end of the world as we know it? Climate fiction (cli-fi) explores the world we live in now and in the very near future as the effects of global warming become more evident. Join bestselling, award-winning writers like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Seanan McGuire, and many others at the brink of tomorrow. Loosed Upon the World is so believable, it’s frightening.
"Welcome to the end of the world, already in progress. Apocalypses are something of a specialty of mine, having edited five anthologies on the subject so far, and it is extraordinarily clear to me that climate change is nothing short of an apocalypse in action. And when the head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is the author of a book calling climate change “the greatest hoax” and says things like “Man can’t change climate [only God can],” it brings to mind the dystopian volumes I’ve edited as well. One of the many problems we face is simply in popular comprehension. It’s hard to imagine how a two-degree increase in the average global temperature could possibly affect you or me, or why a three-foot rise in sea level would matter to someone who doesn’t live on a coastline. We might hear about the rapid extinction of fauna in some far-off place and respond with nothing more than, “at’s a shame . . .”; or complain to our neighbors when beach access is closed to us because some small sea bird is nesting. It all feels distant, either in space or in time—something that’s affecting someone somewhere far away, or will affect a future generation as yet unborn."