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UNINA9910465023203321 |
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Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill |
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Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CanavanGerry |
RobinsonKim Stanley |
HillMindy Basinger |
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Soggetti |
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Science fiction - History and criticism |
Ecofiction - History and criticism |
Ecology in literature |
Environmentalism in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; GREEN PLANETS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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 People8 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 |
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Ecologies of Metaphor in Solaris and "Oceanic"; Afterword: Still, I'm Reluctant to Call This Pessimism |
Of Further InterestAbout the Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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