Patrick Whitmarsh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Wofford College. He has published essays in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, JML: The Journal of Modern Literature, and SFS: Science Fiction Studies.

"This brilliant book tackles a vital topic with creativity, grace, and depth. Chock full of ideas, Writing Our Extinction opens up fascinating questions about what Whitmarsh calls 'vertical science.' A crucial touchstone for current debates in ecocriticism."—Caren Irr, Brandeis University "What happens when we look up? Or look down? Writing Our Extinction insists these are vital questions to ask, as it carefully shows how vertical perspectives illuminate a present ripe with the anticipation of our species' demise."—Min Hyoung Song, Boston College "[For] an ecological humanism characteristically prone to deep despair (on the one hand) and deluded self-aggrandizement (on the other), Writing Our Extinction is an exemplary model for how to do this hard work right."—Gerry Canavan, H-Environment "Writing Our Extinction is a potent book that literally upends discussions of Anthropocene fiction, climate change fiction (or 'cli-fi'), and the parameters and textures of the 'Anthropocene novel.' It's an invaluable addition to our understanding of how novels not only function in this moment of ecological precarity and collapse, but directly connect human behavior to planetary change and anticipate the extinctive force of scientific and technological 'development.'" Erin James, Studies in the Novel

• Introduction: The Vertical Anthropocene1. Earthly Language: Don DeLillo and the Novel of the Anthropocene2. Plot Holes: Anthropocene Fiction After Project Mohole3. Overview Effects: Anthropocene Fiction in the Orbital Field4. Fossil Labor: Anthropocene Fiction and the Racial Politics of ExtinctionUnderview: Writing Our Resilience

Patrick Whitmarsh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Wofford College. He has published essays in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, JML: The Journal of Modern Literature, and SFS: Science Fiction Studies.

"This brilliant book tackles a vital topic with creativity, grace, and depth. Chock full of ideas, Writing Our Extinction opens up fascinating questions about what Whitmarsh calls 'vertical science.' A crucial touchstone for current debates in ecocriticism."—Caren Irr, Brandeis University "What happens when we look up? Or look down? Writing Our Extinction insists these are vital questions to ask, as it carefully shows how vertical perspectives illuminate a present ripe with the anticipation of our species' demise."—Min Hyoung Song, Boston College "[For] an ecological humanism characteristically prone to deep despair (on the one hand) and deluded self-aggrandizement (on the other), Writing Our Extinction is an exemplary model for how to do this hard work right."—Gerry Canavan, H-Environment "Writing Our Extinction is a potent book that literally upends discussions of Anthropocene fiction, climate change fiction (or 'cli-fi'), and the parameters and textures of the 'Anthropocene novel.' It's an invaluable addition to our understanding of how novels not only function in this moment of ecological precarity and collapse, but directly connect human behavior to planetary change and anticipate the extinctive force of scientific and technological 'development.'" Erin James, Studies in the Novel

• Introduction: The Vertical Anthropocene1. Earthly Language: Don DeLillo and the Novel of the Anthropocene2. Plot Holes: Anthropocene Fiction After Project Mohole3. Overview Effects: Anthropocene Fiction in the Orbital Field4. Fossil Labor: Anthropocene Fiction and the Racial Politics of ExtinctionUnderview: Writing Our Resilience

Patrick Whitmarsh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Wofford College. He has published essays in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, JML: The Journal of Modern Literature, and SFS: Science Fiction Studies.

"This brilliant book tackles a vital topic with creativity, grace, and depth. Chock full of ideas, Writing Our Extinction opens up fascinating questions about what Whitmarsh calls 'vertical science.' A crucial touchstone for current debates in ecocriticism."—Caren Irr, Brandeis University "What happens when we look up? Or look down? Writing Our Extinction insists these are vital questions to ask, as it carefully shows how vertical perspectives illuminate a present ripe with the anticipation of our species' demise."—Min Hyoung Song, Boston College "[For] an ecological humanism characteristically prone to deep despair (on the one hand) and deluded self-aggrandizement (on the other), Writing Our Extinction is an exemplary model for how to do this hard work right."—Gerry Canavan, H-Environment "Writing Our Extinction is a potent book that literally upends discussions of Anthropocene fiction, climate change fiction (or 'cli-fi'), and the parameters and textures of the 'Anthropocene novel.' It's an invaluable addition to our understanding of how novels not only function in this moment of ecological precarity and collapse, but directly connect human behavior to planetary change and anticipate the extinctive force of scientific and technological 'development.'" Erin James, Studies in the Novel

• Introduction: The Vertical Anthropocene1. Earthly Language: Don DeLillo and the Novel of the Anthropocene2. Plot Holes: Anthropocene Fiction After Project Mohole3. Overview Effects: Anthropocene Fiction in the Orbital Field4. Fossil Labor: Anthropocene Fiction and the Racial Politics of ExtinctionUnderview: Writing Our Resilience