“I Give You the Moon”

Year for Search
2022
Secondary Title
Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
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Annotation

The story is set in a depopulated but high-tech future after a slow apocalypse produced by diseases and climate change. It focuses on a man living on the African coast helping to regulate the machines that are cleaning up the oceans and living in a simple hut on the beach living off the credits he earns and his interactions with his son and others, mostly at a distance through an unexplained wireless system.

Pagination
113-133
Published Date

2022

Publisher
The MIT Press
Place Published
Cambridge, MA
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ISBN Number
978-0-26254-443-6
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2022 Robson, Justina [Louise Alice] (b. 1968). “I Give You the Moon.” Illus. Sean Bodley. Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 113-133. PSt

The story is set in a depopulated but high-tech future after a slow apocalypse produced by diseases and climate change. It focuses on a man living on the African coast helping to regulate the machines that are cleaning up the oceans and living in a simple hut on the beach living off the credits he earns and his interactions with his son and others, mostly at a distance through an unexplained wireless system. Female author.

Illustration

Illus. Sean Bodley

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Author Note

Female author (b. 1968)