[...] Kaup's book is an original and instructive work, so much so as to be useful as an introduction to the intersections between various new realist theories, as well as a skilful demonstration of their applications for literary analysis.

I was thrilled by Kaup's stunning capacity clearly to express complexity as many times as I was baffled by the particular commitments of this tightly knit way of thinking the world, literature, and communication: both say much about me and I hope they also help to steer Kaup's best readers to this book. It may be just the kind of criticism they need at present.

Monika Kaup's encyclopedic new study promises to be invaluable inasmuch as it organizes and reframes an impressive amount of scholarship from the past three decades of ecological thinking.

[...] a remarkable scholarly work that combines a firm grasp of theory with literary analysis.

By introducing readers to a variety of provocative approaches to "new realism," and by showing how post-apocalyptic fictions not only enact but also deepen and broaden those theories, Monika Kaup provides an invaluable map of our precarious present that simultaneously offers hope for our collective future.

Presenting a context-dependent realism, Monika Kaup brings together theory and fiction to get real about ecology and the future. Philosophical inquiries and post-apocalyptic writings collide in engaging prose and exciting ideas that open up new horizons for thinking, feeling, and acting after the end of the world.