![]() ![]() ![]() While some of the creatures from Dixon’s imagination seem every bit as alien to a modern reader as they appeared to readers in the early ‘80s, others now don’t seem so distant. With the removal of this interference I was able to let nature get back to work”. Reflecting in the new foreword he has written exclusively for this edition, he notes, “the book was about the natural forces of evolution, and man, with his big feet and his big hands, had too much of an influence, twisting the course of nature away from anything that can be predicted. ![]() To some, this erasure of humanity was seen as sacrilege, but Dixon himself only ever saw the decision to obliterate his own species from his vision as a practical one. This updated edition features eighteen pages of never-before-seen sketches and production material alongside a new afterword by Dougal Dixon.įirst published 40 years ago, After Man is Dougal Dixon’s vision of an ‘alternative evolution’: one without mankind. □.in a distant future, after the extinction of man…□įormat: Hardback | 235 x 276 mm | 144 pages | £24.99īreakdown Press is proud to present an expanded edition of Dougal Dixon’s lavishly illustrated work of speculative zoology, published to celebrate the book’s 40th anniversary. ![]()
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