A Storybook of Culling

By David R. Cole

A joy and a challenge to read ... just the way good fiction should be ...
Sean Blekinsop, Professor of Education, Co-Director, Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG), Simon Fraser University

An impressive narrative arc into the end of human history ...Cole leaves little unsaid in this compelling read about our own potential unravelling.
Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A East, Professor of Practice, SOAS, University of London

Unlike the countless books full of dry facts and uninspiring information about our environmental, cultural, and political challenges, David R. Cole's work of climate fiction expands our imagination so that we can envision possible directions for moving into the future.
Sam Mickey, PhD, Theology and Religious Studies department, University of San Francisco

A powerful speculative vision of potential ecofutures and their implications for humankind. This book foregrounds skillfully crafted narratives of living and relating alongside the material histories of the sustainable futures. Enjoyable multifaceted read
Mirka Koro, Professor, Qualitative research, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

From the moment of revelation of the privatisation of Dallas by Iranian-Zoroastrian benefactors, I was hooked. Immersed in the Texas landscape, this novel swerves between Anthropocene theory and new forms of paranoia fit for future nomadology. Cumulatively awesome...
Thomas Mical, Director, Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley (Indian Himalayas)

This beautifully written and well-researched novel is an excellent addition to the growing body of speculative dystopian climate fiction. A shockingly prescient possible world.
Thomas Nail, Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Philosophy, University of Denver

A history of civilization, the impact of climate change, a futuristic vision of geo-political turmoil in the US, and questions of morality and population control - just some of the subjects Cole engages with in this amazing tale from the Anthropocene.
Christopher Naughton, Independent scholar, publisher of Art, Artists and Pedagogy (Routledge)

In the year 2095, the devastating effects of climate change persist despite global efforts to mitigate their impact. Set in the Persianized city of Sal'lad, this tale explores the collision of two disparate narratives within the same tumultuous backdrop.

An academic finds himself ensnared in a perilous liaison with a captivating Persian woman, while behind the scenes, a clandestine society orchestrates what they believe to be the greatest act in human history.

As the twenty-first century lurches from crisis to crisis, humanity remains mired in unresolved turmoil. Unbeknownst to the world, a secret society devises a solution to the planet's woes. Yet, their plans are shrouded in mystery, guarded by the threat of death for any who dare to speak of them.

Navigating the treacherous landscape of impending catastrophe and lost love, only the innocence of a childlike consciousness may comprehend the precipice of these singularly horrific acts. This is a Storybook of Culling-a tale of heartbreak and the chilling rationalization of acts too unspeakable to fathom.

This is the necropolitics of our age, the bureaucratic sublime that outstrips Huxley's soma and Orwell's boot alike. For Cole, the catastrophe of climate is not the failure of governance but its triumph-administration perfected as extermination, Enlightenment rationality realizing itself at last as omnicide.
Steve Craig Hickman

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DFLQZW81
• ISBN13: 9798891324251
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Atmosphere Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"