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A vivid, fascinating story about all the past and future lives of our planet. -- Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World Want to know the future? Look to the past, the deep past. That's one of the many insights you'll glean from reading Brannen's entertaining, engaging, elegant book. -- David Biello, author of The Unnatural World A simultaneously enlightening and cautionary tale of the deep history of our planet and the possible future, when conscious life may become extinct. -- Kirkus Reviews A much-needed overview...both as a cautionary lesson and a hopeful demonstration of how life on Earth keeps rebounding from destruction. -- Booklist Revealing . . . Effectively linking past and present...with projections for the future and a warning against inaction in the face of climate change. -- Publishers Weekly If readers have time for only one book on the subject, this wonderfully written, well-balanced, and intricately researched (though not too dense) selection is the one to choose. -- Library Journal (starred review)

"If readers have time for only one book on the subject, this wonderfully written, well-balanced, and intricately researched (though not too dense) selection is the one to choose. -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" Revealing . . . Effectively linking past and present...with projections for the future and a warning against inaction in the face of climate change. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" A much-needed overview...both as a cautionary lesson and a hopeful demonstration of how life on Earth keeps rebounding from destruction. -- ""Booklist"" A simultaneously enlightening and cautionary tale of the deep history of our planet and the possible future, when conscious life may become extinct. -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" Want to know the future? Look to the past, the deep past. That's one of the many insights you'll glean from reading Brannen's entertaining, engaging, elegant book. -- ""David Biello, author of The Unnatural World"" A vivid, fascinating story about all the past and future lives of our planet. -- ""Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World"""

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Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, the Boston Globe, and Aeon, among other publications. A graduate of Boston College, he was a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the Duke University National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and a 2011 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellow. This is his first book. Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

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