I hope these essays help you to find a small piece of your Other Human. London, February 2020

They are part of a rotting foundation that is soon to be washed out to sea. So here is my own lexicon of dystopia. I hope you find it as refreshing and critical as it was meant to be. Waking up was never easy.

As humanity skims through the final chapters of its book, paying attention to the words matters more than ever

I wrote this book when I was still freshly wounded from a serious episode of anxiety.

This was my own existential crisis. This book looks beyond climate change and casts its eye much deeper inside our malfunctioning mind, as well as into the future.

The essays and stories here represent my own, personal Noah's Ark: how I would like to remember my planet, whatever the future holds. There is no rhetoric, no well-constructed arguments or vitriolic rants in this book.

"Tsakraklides has finally given the Earth a voice" - The Literary Licence Podcast "This is impressing me like no author I've read since Kim Stanley Robinson. Bravo" (anonymous reader)

This is one movie you cannot switch off. It is the real story of a 4.5-billion-old planet, and you the main actor in it who determines the final outcome in the movie. This is for real.