Beacons throws down the gauntlet, challenging best-selling and award-winning authors to imagine where we, and out planet, might be headed and, in imagining, help us transform the way we look at our world and change things for the better. From Joanne Harris’ powerful vision of a near future where ‘outside’ has become a thing of history to Nick Hayes’ beautifully illustrated tale of the bond between man and nature, Beacons sees the coming together of dystopian satire, speculative and historical fiction, metaphorical flights of fancy, quiet tragedy, and farcical comedy in stories that are as various as our possible futures. Provocative, encouraging, and deeply moving, Beacons represents the best of short story writing — and collectively illuminates the immediacy of the ecological problems at hand.
Authors: by Tom Bullough (Editor), David Constantine, Sian Melangell Dafydd, Clare Dudman, Janice Galloway, Adam Marek, Toby Litt, A.L. Kennedy , Liz Jensen, Holly Howitt, Nick Hayes, Gregory Norminton, Joanne Harris, Rodge Glass, Alasdair Gray, Jay Griffiths, Adam Thorpe, Jem Poster, Lawrence Norfolk, James Miller, Maria McCann
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3.2 rating based on 104 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1851689699
ISBN-13: 9781851689699
Goodreads: 17239379
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A riveting and provocative collection of short stories, Beacons throws down the gauntlet to award-winning writers, challenging them to devise original responses to the climate crisis. From Joanne Harris’ cautionary tale of a world where ‘outside’ has become a thing of history to Nick Hayes’ graphic depiction of the primeval bond between man and nature, each story thrills the senses as it attempts to make sense of a world warping into something unfamiliar. Original, eclectic, and inventive, Beacons warns and inspires by offering stories that are as various as our possible futures.
All author royalties will go to the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, one of the largest groups of people dedicated to action on climate change and limiting its impact on the world’s poorest people.
