Welcome to the Greenhouse

Forty years ago Walt Kellys comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: We have met the enemy and he is us. Now as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction and certain transformation of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities.What will our new world look like? How will wecan weadapt? The clash of a rapidly changing environment with earths self-styled ruling species humans provides ample creative fodder for this riveting anthology of original science fiction. In Welcome to the Greenhouse award-winning editor Gordon Van Gelder has brought together sixteen speculative stories by some of the most imaginative writers of our time. Terrorists godlike terraformers and humans both manipulative and hapless populate these pages. The variety of stories reflects the possibilities of our future: grim hopeful fantastic and absurd.