Introduction -- The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel -- The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The road and Maggie Gee's The ice people -- Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism: Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The rapture -- Identity, ethical agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The stone gods and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army -- Science, utopianism, and ecocentric posterity: Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Science in the capital' and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behaviour -- Conclusion: The sense of no ending.
