03302nam 2200649 450 991046502320332120200520144314.00-8195-7428-7(CKB)3710000000089518(EBL)1635427(SSID)ssj0001112177(PQKBManifestationID)12503508(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112177(PQKBWorkID)11158811(PQKB)11617938(MiAaPQ)EBC1635427(OCoLC)870950859(MdBmJHUP)muse33556(Au-PeEL)EBL1635427(CaPaEBR)ebr10840153(EXLCZ)99371000000008951820140304h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGreen planets ecology and science fiction /edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger HillMiddletown, Connecticut :Wesleyan University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (313 p.)Includes index.0-8195-7426-0 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 Apocalypse7 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 Ecologies of Metaphor in Solaris and "Oceanic"; Afterword: Still, I'm Reluctant to Call This PessimismOf Further InterestAbout the Contributors; IndexEssays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fictionScience fictionHistory and criticismEcofictionHistory and criticismEcology in literatureEnvironmentalism in literatureElectronic books.Science fictionHistory and criticism.EcofictionHistory and criticism.Ecology in literature.Environmentalism in literature.809.3/876209336Canavan Gerry994428Robinson Kim Stanley994429Hill Mindy Basinger982536MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465023203321Green planets2277336UNINA