Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Messages from the Angry Planet -- Chapter 1. Terraforming the New World: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & -- Dixon and Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist -- Chapter 2. First World Problems: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange -- Chapter 3. Third World Liberation: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Héctor Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier -- Chapter 4. The Fourth World Resurgent: Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower -- Conclusion: The Angry Planet in the Anthropocene -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.