Green planets

Green planets: ecology and science fiction

by Canavan, Gerry Robinson, Kim Stanley

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Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction.

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  • Full title :Green planets : ecology and science fiction / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014

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  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780819574282, 0819574287
  • oclc:ocn870950859
  • LC Classification:PN3433.6
  • Dewey Decimal:809.3/876209336

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction: If this goes on -- Part 1. Arcadias and New Jerusalems. 1. Extinction, extermination, and the ecological optimism of H.G. Wells ; 2. Evolution and apocalypse in the Golden Age ; 3. Daoism, ecology, and world reduction in Le Guin's utopian fictions ; 4, Biotic invasions: ecological imperialism in New Wave science fiction -- Part 2. Brave new worlds and lands of the flies. 5. "The real problem of a spaceship is its people": Spaceship Earth as ecological science fiction ; 6. The sea and eternal summer: an Australian apocalypse ; 7. Care, gender, and the climate-changed future: Maggie Gee's The ice people ; 8. Future ecologies, current crisis: ecological concern in South African speculative fiction ; 9. Ordinary catastrophes: paradoxes and problems in some recent post-apocalypse fictions ; 10. "The rain feels new": ecotopian strategies in the short fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi ; 11. Life after people: science faction and ecological futures ; 12. Pandora's box: Avatar, ecology, thought ; 13. Churning up the depths: nonhuman ecologies of metaphor in Solaris and "Oceanic" -- Afterword: Still, I'm reluctant to call this pessimism -- Of further interest -- About the…

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Criticism, interpretation, etc Ecofiction Ecofiction -- History and criticism Ecology in literature Ekologi i litteraturen Environmentalism in literature Environnementalisme dans la littérature Miljöfrågor i litteraturen Roman écologique -- Histoire et critique Science fiction Science fiction -- History and criticism

Writers

Canavan, Gerry Robinson, Kim Stanley

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