"An affecting, emotional story about loss, community, and the false promise that we may somehow be able to find a convenient escape from the consequences of our actionsReed asks us to consider what might be easier to change the laws of physics or human nature?" -- Michael Patrick Brady - Boston Globe "Lyrical, heady. Writers as diverse as Chang-rae Lee, Jennifer Egan and Ali Smith have circled around a pair of perplexing questions: What does the near-future wish to tell us? And can we save ourselves? Terrestrial History is Joe Mungo Reeds piercing, poetic answer." -- Hamilton Cain - Washington Post "Reeds simple but vivid prose recalls aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily St. John Mandel, and Richard Powers, with sentences crafted so creatively yet so seemingly inevitably." -- Bing Lin - Science "A satisfying work of climate fiction involving interplanetary time travel...and the conclusion packs an emotional wallop. Fans of slipstream fiction like Cloud Atlas will find a great deal to enjoy here." -- Publishers Weekly "[ Terrestrial History] succeeds in brilliantly dramatizing some of the great questions of our time. Can we technologize our way out of the climate crisis or should we instead focus our energies on collaboratively solving the problem with the tools we have? Is Earth our only viable planetary home or can we adequately replicate its richness elsewhere? If the latter, who will get to go? And what fate awaits those left behind? And is the future worth living for those who manage to leave?" -- Kirkus Reviews "Science Fiction, lyrical lament, generational fissures, apocalyptic reality this is a novel that strikes all the notes. Terrestrial History is smart, engrossing, devastating, and brought to an impeccable finish." -- Joy Williams, author of Harrow and The Visiting Privilege "Terrestrial History is many things: an intimate family story, an ambitious novel of ideas, a poignant parable of human striving, and an intricately imagined climate fiction. Joe Mungo Reed writes beautiful, precise prose; every sentence is glorious. I have never read such a tender elegy for our planet." -- Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward "I cant wait to press Joe Mungo Reeds Terrestrial History into the hands of anyone curious about climate disaster and colonizing Mars. While tech magnates litter our planet with flaming spaceship debris, Reed masterfully traces the human costs of these endeavors." -- Adrienne Westenfeld
