num_pages: 184
description: Spanning six continents and nine countriesfrom metropolitan Mexico City to the crumbling ancient aqueducts of Turkey the receding coastline of Singapore to the coral shores of northern AustraliaMcSweeneys 58 is wholly focused on climate change with speculative fiction from ten contributors made in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Global in scope each story is set in the year 2040 and imagines what the world might look like if the dire warnings issued by the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C were to come true. Using fictioninformed here and there by realism and climate sciencethis issue explores the tangible day-to-day implications of these cataclysmic scientific projections. Featuring Tommy Orange Elif Shafak Luis Alberto Urrea Asja Bakic Rachel Heng and others with gorgeous full-color illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.From the issues introduction by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz Chief Program Officer of the NRDC: Each story in this special issue is the product of a unique collaboration between its author and an NRDC policy expert with specialized knowledge of how climate change is already affecting the world and how it could continue to affect the world in the decades to come. The result we hope is a collection where fictions already considerable power is fortified by science.Featuring original stories by:Tommy OrangeClaire G. ColemanBirna Anna BjrnsdttirLuis Alberto UrreaElif ShafakAbbey Mei OtisAsja BakiRachel HengKanishk TharoorMikael Awake
language: English
title: McSweeney's #58: 2040 A.D.
publisher: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern