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Information: Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
A Multi-scalar Poetics
, pp. vii - viii

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009699426 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2026
Creative Commons: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/cclicenses/

Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Microcosmos

He turned his head, and just for a moment he didn’t see the universe balanced there on his back. It was himself he was carrying, colossal and weighty, little Atlas desperately holding up the Atlas of the world.

Jeanette Winterson, Weight

Is there something in the corner of your eye that you cannot get out?

Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

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