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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Narrative and Interlocking Forms -- 1. Complex Narrative in the Anthropocene -- Part I. Nonlinearity -- 2. The Form of the Butterfly -- 3. Negative Strategies and Nonlinear Temporality in Postapocalyptic Fiction -- Part II. Interdependency -- 4. Five Ways of Looking at Nonhuman Actants -- 5. Minding the Anthropocene -- Part III. Multiscalarity -- 6. Metaphorical Patterns in Anthropocene Fiction -- 7. Metaphor, Scale, and the Value of Conceptual Trouble -- Coda: Thinking beyond Literary Form -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Recent books in the series.