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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
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ANNALEE NEWITZ is the founding editor of the science Web site io9.com and a journalist with a decade's experience in writing about science, culture, and the future for such publications as "Wired," "Popular Science," and "The Washington Post." She is the editor of the anthology "She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Geeky Stuff" and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in San Francisco.

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Praise for "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: "
"As "Walking Dead" fans know, few things are more enjoyable than touring the apocalypse from the safety of your living room. Even as "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember" cheerfully reminds us that asteroid impacts, mega-volcanos and methane eruptions are certain to come, it suggests how humankind can survive and even thrive. Yes, Annalee Newitz promises, the world will end with a bang, but our species doesn't have to end with a whimper. "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember" is a guide to "Homo sapiens"' next million years. I had fun reading this book and you will too."
--Charles Mann, author of" 1491
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""Scatter, Adapt, and Remember "is a refreshingly optimistic and well thought out dissection of that perennial worry: the coming apocalypse. While everyone else stridently shouts about the end of days, this book asks and answers a simple question: 'If it's so bad, then why are we still alive?' I found myself in awe of the incredible extinction events that humankind--and life in general--has already survived, and Newitz inspires us with engaging arguments that our race will keep reaching the end of the world and then keep living through it. "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember "intimately acquaints the reader with our two-hundred-thousand-year tradition of survival--nothing less than our shared heritage as human beings."
--Daniel H. Wilson, author of "Robopocalypse "and "Amped
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"One part "OMNI"-grade optimistic futurism; one part terrifying disaster-history; entirely awesome and inspiring. A FTL rocket-ride through extinction and its discontents."
--Cory Doctorow, author of "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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"This book is not a survivalist guide but rather a grand historical overview that puts humanity in the middle of its evolution, with fascinating looks both back and forward in time. An enormous amount of knowledge is gathered here, and the book accomplishes something almost impossible, being extremely interesting on every single page. A real pleasure to read and think about."
--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy "One of the best popular science books I've read in a long, long time--and perhaps the only one that takes such a clear-eyed view of the future."
--Seth Mnookin, author of "The Panic Virus" " ""An animated and absorbing account into how life has survived mass extinctions so far...and what we need to do to make sure humans don't perish in the next one... Humans may be experts at destroying the planet, but we are no slouches at preserving it, either, and Newitz's shrewd speculations are heartening."
--"Kirkus Reviews" A "Scientific American" Recommended Book

Advance Praise for "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: "
"One part "OMNI"-grade optimistic futurism; one part terrifying disaster-history; entirely awesome and inspiring. A FTL rocket-ride through extinction and its discontents."
--Cory Doctorow, author of "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," "Little Brother," and "Makers"

"As "Walking Dead" fans know, few things are more enjoyable than touring the apocalypse from the safety of your living room. Even as "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember" cheerfully reminds us that asteroid impacts, mega-volcanos and methane eruptions are certain to come, it suggests how humankind can survive and even thrive. Yes, Annalee Newitz promises, the world will end with a bang, but our species doesn't have to end with a whimper. "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember" is a guide to "Homo sapiens"' next million years. I had fun reading this book and you will too."
--Charles Mann, author of" 1491
"
""Scatter, Adapt, and Remember "is a refreshingly optimistic and well thought out dissection of that perennial worry: the coming apocalypse. While everyone else stridently shouts about the end of days, this book asks and answers a simple question: 'If it's so bad, then why are we still alive?' I found myself in awe of the incredible extinction events that humankind--and life in general--has already survived, and Newitz inspires us with engaging arguments that our race will keep reaching the end of the world and then keep living through it. "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember "intimately acquaints the reader with our two-hundred-thousand-year tradition of survival--nothing less than our shared heritage as human beings."
--Daniel H. Wilson, author of "Robopocalypse "and "Amped"

"This book is not a survivalist guide but rather a grand historical overview that puts humanity in the middle of its evolution, with fascinating looks both back and forward in time. An enormous amount of knowledge is gathered here, and the book

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