Green planets : ecology and science fiction / Edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Other Authors: Canavan, Gerry (Editor), Robinson, Kim Stanley (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: If this goes on / Gerry Canavan
  • Extinction, extermination, and the ecological optimism of H.G. Wells / Christina Alt
  • Evolution and apocalypse in the golden age / Michael Page
  • Daoism, ecology, and world reduction in Le Guin's utopian fictions / Gib Prettyman
  • Biotic invasions: ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction / Rob Latham
  • "The real problem of a spaceship is its people": spaceship Earth as ecological science fiction / Sabine Höhler
  • The sea and eternal summer: an Australian apocalypse / Andrew Milner
  • Care, gender, and the climate-changed future: Maggie Gee's The Ice People / Adeline Johns-Putra
  • Future ecologies, current crisis: ecological concern in South African speculative fiction / Elzette Steenkamp
  • Ordinary catastrophes: paradoxes and problems in some recent post-apocalypse fictions / Christopher Palmer
  • "The rain feels new": ecotopian strategies in the short fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi / Eric C. Otto
  • Life after people: science faction and ecological futures / Brent Bellamy and Imre Szeman
  • Pandora's box: Avatar, ecology, thought / Timothy Morton
  • Churning up the depths: nonhuman ecologies of metaphor in Solaris and "Oceanic" / Melody Jue
  • Afterward: Still, I'm reluctant to call this pessimism / Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson.