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.
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
"
""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
"
"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
"
"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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