Eugene Thacker

“Sad Planets makes the claim for a cosmic and inhuman melancholy … It’s extraordinarily original, wide-ranging, lucid, and readable … This brilliant text is a Minima Moralia for the twenty-first century.”
—Claire Colebrook, author of Death of the Posthuman: Essays on Extinction

“Sad Planets generates a rich constellation of interrelated ideas. Its mini-essays, lively and eloquent, are unexpectedly exhilarating despite their apocalyptic subject. This is a book that will transform its readers.”
—Peter Schwenger, author of The Tears of Things

This book is timely and important … it provides new ways of thinking about our relationship to the future, to the planet, to the earth, to space, and to climate change … it speaks to the affects surrounding climate change, from fear and dread to complacency or helplessness, even anger.”
—Kelly Oliver, author of Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions

“Sad Planets is both brilliant and original … perhaps the real lesson of the book is that there is no way to ever fully deal with our overall reality. But by translating this dilemma from an intellectual one into an emotional one Sad Planets establishes itself alongside the greatest texts about melancholia in the English language.”
—Steven Shaviro, author of Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and Potentiality

Co-authored with Dominic Pettman
Published by Polity Books