| Description |
241 pages ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Preface -- A part hide, a part human / Craig Cormick -- Fix / Leone Ross -- The breaking of the glass / Tham Chui-Joe -- Awake / Ben Brooker -- The cure / Abir Hamdar -- 1913 : the world to come is made of love / Jeanette Delamoir -- The outer territories / Tim Richards -- Preface to a selected history of the twenty-first century / Lucy Greenwood -- Caretakers / John Fulton -- 2084 / Dirk Strasser -- The whale god / Jeanette Zissell -- Progress / John G. Shulman -- Of life below / Leah Swann -- The word for the future / Eunice Ngongkum -- Game / Tabish Khair -- Into the stillness came the rain ... / Crisetta MacLeod -- The future is wow / Sébastien Doubinsky -- Europe is not a country / Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire -- When the birds come / Emily Riches -- Marty and the moon / Bronwyne Thomason -- Gamil yanaay walaybaa : no going home / Marcus Waters |
| Summary |
Annotation. In 1738, English preacher, Isaac Watts wrote 'The world to come', a Christian tract about departed souls, death, and the glory or terror of the resurrection. Almost 300 years later the world to come still fascinates readers. It's not only climate change, it's the climate of everything: from technological 'advances' that threaten to create an immortal humanity; to an endless 'war on terror,' which means that, though we may never know war, nor will we ever truly know peace; to a thousand visions of post-Apocalyptic life in the media. The world to come is everywhere; it is with us now... In this anthology, twenty-one writers respond to the world to come - the one just around the corner, the hereafter and the everywhen. The World To Come is a truly international publication. Edited by Om Dwivedi (India) and Patrick West (Australia), it features talented new voices as well as established literary stars such as John Fulton (USA), Eunice Ngongkum (Africa), Dirk Strasser (Australia), Tabish Khair (India), Leone Ross (Jamaica), Tim Richards (Australia), Sébastien Doubinsky (France), John Shulman (India), Craig Cormick (Australia), Leah Swann (Australia) and First Nation writer, Marcus Waters |
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Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748 -- Fiction.
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Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
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Future life -- Early works to 1800 -- Fiction.
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Future life -- Early works to 1800.
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Future life -- Fiction.
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Future punishment -- Early works to 1800 -- Fiction.
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Future punishment -- Early works to 1800.
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| Genre/Form |
Alternative histories (Fiction)
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Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Author |
Prakash Dwivedi, Om, editor
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West, Patrick, editor
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| ISBN |
1925052044 (paperback) |
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9781925052046 (paperback) |
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