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Death by Landscape
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About This Book
From the author of Oval, a collection of "fan nonfiction" that proposes new possibilities and genealogies for weird fiction in the age of extinction. This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris Lessing, Jenny Hval, Anne Carson, Octavia Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Mark Fisher, Donna Haraway, and Jeff and Ann VanderMeer; it explores the erotics of compost, vampire-themed live-action roleplaying, intoxicated birds, medieval nuns, invasive spores, and solarpunk. The book asks: what kind of stories are being written that help us rethink our human-centric perspective of Earth? What kinds of narratives will make sense of the age of extinction? Death by Landscape creates a syllabus for feminist sci-fi and speculative fiction for our time.
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"argues compellingly that giving more space to the weird can help us reconsider our relationships to nature—and, even in the face of institutional inertia, exercise greater responsibility to each other."
"The author makes us look at the world and speculative creations in a new, defamiliarized way."
"This one packs a punch."
"The tangible sense of questing is relatable, but as a result, at times the book has the feel of something in progress ..."
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