The end of the anthropocene : ecocriticism the universal ecosystem and the astropocene Ecocriticism and the universal ecosystem Biotic world A body in the universal ecosystem The astropocene Spatiotemporal nature. In The End of the Anthropocene Michael J. Gormley examines late stage anthropocene literature and the imagining of the astropocene. Focusing on science fiction literature Gormley frames a changing ecoethic for the end of the anthropocene