What does the future hold for the evolution of our species? This book was first released as an English-language digital edition in 2006. It has built up an enormous cult following online; one YouTube video that discusses the book has been viewed more than 17 million times. But only one print edition has ever appeared, in Thai. Wilton Square will now publish the definitive print edition in English.
Prepare to embark on a speculative odyssey in All Tomorrows: an extraordinary exploration of the potentials and pitfalls of human evolution. In this visionary classic, author and artist C. M. Kosemen imagines how life will be shaped by genetic manipulation, alien intervention and the relentless forces of evolutionary change. From the colonisation of Mars to the ultimate destiny of humanity, the future is bound to unfold in unexpected and unsettling ways... All Tomorrows is a thrilling tale of survival and a breathtaking work of imagination that catalogues the progress of new human species and documents the trials they face on distant worlds. Some will flourish while others fade into oblivion, but the vital essence of humanity persists against all odds.
C. M. Kosemen is an artist and independent researcher born in Ankara, Turkey. He studied at Cornell University, Istanbul’s Sabanci University and holds a Masters’ degree from London’s Goldsmiths College in Documentary Film and Media Studies. Kosemen’s areas of interest include surreal art, Mediterranean history, palaeontology, evolution, zoology and visual culture.
As an artist, Kosemen is affiliated with the Empire Project Gallery of Istanbul. His art has been displayed in exhibits in Catania, Vienna, Ulcinj, Istanbul, Ankara, London and Tel Aviv.
As a researcher, Kosemen’s book credits include Osman Hasan and the Tombstone Photographs of the Dönmes, from Libra Books of Istanbul. Copies of this book have been purchased by leading universities and research institutes of the world. It has won the Eduard-Duckesz History Prize.
Kosemen’s other book credits include All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, and the Cryptozoologicon: The Biology, Evolution and Mythology of Hidden Animals from Irregular Books. Kosemen was also an editor for Benetton’s Colors magazine and worked in various advertising agencies.
"An astonishing merging of scientific acumen and imagination, a true masterwork of the speculative and the informed. Kosemen's eye for the future is simultaneously weird, wondrous and delightfully grotesque"
– Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of Children of Time series
"A myriad evolutionary possibilities, a galaxy of future species and a vision of the future that combines beauty, horror, starkness, indelible complexity and more [...] All Tomorrows has it all"
– Darren Naish, palaeontologist and author of Ancient Sea Reptiles
"A really intriguing presentation of fantastically feasible organisms, forecasting mankind as new adaptations force traumatic evolutionary radiations millennia after now"
– Dougal Dixon, geologist and author of After Man
"All Tomorrows has evolved – this is the print edition we've been waiting for! Treasure it. Delight and disturb your friends. Bury it in the woods to puzzle future archeologists. Seize all tomorrows!"
– Alt Shift X, YouTuber
"If Man After Man was "an anthropology of the future", All Tomorrows is the future's portrait"
– Daniel Bensen, author of Junction