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The Ruins of Earth

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Man is at last waking up to the terrible damage he is inflicting on his environment. The various routes to disaster have already been charted.
But the damage still goes on.
This collection of stories by leading science-fiction writers - each committed to a human vision of society - attempts to take the ecological inquiry one stage further. To indicate why we are destroying our world - and what the possible consequences for us all may be.

Contents:
- Introduction by Thomas M. Disch
Part 1: The Way It Is
- Deer in the Works by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Three Million Square Miles by Gene Wolfe
- Closing with Nature by Norman Rush
Part 2: Why It Is The Way It Is
- The Plot to Save the World by Michael Brownstein
- Autofac by Philip K. Dick
- Roommates by Harry Harrison
- Groaning Hinges of the World by R. A. Lafferty
Part 3: How It Could Get Worse
- Gas Mask by James D. Houston
- Wednesday, November 15, 1967 by George Alec Effinger
- The Cage of Sand by J. G. Ballard
- Accident Vertigo by Kenward Elmslie
- The Birds by Thomas M. Disch
Part 4: Unfortunate Solutions
- Do It for Mama! by Jerrold Mundis
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Norman Kagan
- The Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas
- America the Beautiful by Fritz Leiber

Language: English

Pages: 349

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Arrow Books

Release: April 01, 1975

ISBN: 0099094401

ISBN 13: 9780099094401

The Ruins of Earth

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Man is at last waking up to the terrible damage he is inflicting on his environment. The various routes to disaster have already been charted.
But the damage still goes on.
This collection of stories by leading science-fiction writers - each committed to a human vision of society - attempts to take the ecological inquiry one stage further. To indicate why we are destroying our world - and what the possible consequences for us all may be.

Contents:
- Introduction by Thomas M. Disch
Part 1: The Way It Is
- Deer in the Works by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Three Million Square Miles by Gene Wolfe
- Closing with Nature by Norman Rush
Part 2: Why It Is The Way It Is
- The Plot to Save the World by Michael Brownstein
- Autofac by Philip K. Dick
- Roommates by Harry Harrison
- Groaning Hinges of the World by R. A. Lafferty
Part 3: How It Could Get Worse
- Gas Mask by James D. Houston
- Wednesday, November 15, 1967 by George Alec Effinger
- The Cage of Sand by J. G. Ballard
- Accident Vertigo by Kenward Elmslie
- The Birds by Thomas M. Disch
Part 4: Unfortunate Solutions
- Do It for Mama! by Jerrold Mundis
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Norman Kagan
- The Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas
- America the Beautiful by Fritz Leiber

Language: English

Pages: 349

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Arrow Books

Release: April 01, 1975

ISBN: 0099094401

ISBN 13: 9780099094401

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