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We all die at the end

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As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention.
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  • 18 March 2025
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We all die at the end offers a survey of contemporary end-of-the-world fiction, spanning literature, children’s fiction, video games, theatre and film. It draws on eco-critical philosophy and narrative theory to show ways in which the climate crisis is reorienting storytelling in the face of foreseeable human extinction. In the process, it argues that such stories have a role to play in helping us come to terms with the severity and scale of the crisis that we face.
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Price: $130.00
Pages: 200
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 18 March 2025
ISBN: 9781526175281
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: Theatre studies, Film, television, radio genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror, Literature: history and criticism, Computer games / online games: strategy guides
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' a timely and thought-provoking examination of climate crisis storytelling across genres. This study will be of particular interest to scholars in environmental humanities, literary and media studies, and cultural criticism. It is recommended for those interested in ecocriticism, media studies, or the cultural work of climate storytelling.'
CHOICE (Reprinted with permission from CHOICE)

Sam Haddow is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama at the University of St Andrews

Prologue
1 Growing up in this dying world
2 Parenting in the end times
3 Last battles of the sexes
4 The swallowing green
5 Fungal bogeymen
6 End gaming
7 Our ruins
Epilogue
References
Index