Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Rather than forecasting a bleak future, Weisman’s The World Without Us is mostly uncovering humans’ failures and errors that led the Earth in a downward spiral to doom–the inevitable end to a prolonged human reign of corrosive, toxic and self-destructive domination. Thus, his speculative imaginary has shed fresh light on one pivotal duty of the ecological sci-fi writings which most other sci-fi writers have either overlooked or …