LEADER 04494oam 22006734a 450 001 9910132493403321 005 20240505195534.0 010 $a1-78694-542-8 024 7 $a10.3828/9781781382844 035 $a(CKB)3580000000001981 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001992439 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4803053 035 $a(OCoLC)1138055047 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82847 035 $a(EXLCZ)993580000000001981 100 $a20160829d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTerraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction$fChris Pak 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 249 pages) $cdigital file(s) 225 0 $aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies ;$v55 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 08$aPrint version: Pak, Chris. Terraforming: ecopolitical transformations and environmentalism in science fiction. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016 9781781382844 1781382840 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : terraforming : engineering imaginary environments -- Landscaping nature's otherness in pre-1960s terraforming and proto-Gaian stories -- The American pastoral and the conquest of space -- Ecology and environmental awareness in 1960s-1970s -- Edging towards an eco-cosmopolitan vision -- Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy -- Conclusion. 330 $a"This book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar (2009). Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth--geoengineering--has begun to receive serious consideration as a way to address the effects of climate change. This book asks how science fiction has imagined the ways we shape both our world and other planets and how stories of terraforming reflect on science, society, and environmentalism. It traces the growth of the motif of terraforming in stories by such writers as H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon in the UK; American pulp science fiction by Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke; the countercultural novels of Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ernest Callenbach; Pamela Sargent's Venus trilogy; Frederick Turner's epic poem of terraforming, Genesis; and Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy. It explores terraforming as a nexus for environmental philosophy, the pastoral, ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, the politics of colonisation and habitation, tradition, and memory. This book shows how contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change are influenced by science fiction, and how terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and many other readers a motif to aid in thinking in complex ways about the human impact on planetary environments. Amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, terraforming offers an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by its world."--Page 4 of cover. 410 0$aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies ;$v55. 606 $aScience and state$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01108536 606 $aPlanets$xEnvironmental engineering$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01065138 606 $aEnvironmentalism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00913543 606 $aScience fiction$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01108566 606 $aScience and state 606 $aSpace colonies in literature 606 $aPlanets$xEnvironmental engineering 606 $aEnvironmentalism in literature 606 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aScience and state 615 0$aPlanets$xEnvironmental engineering 615 0$aEnvironmentalism 615 0$aScience fiction 615 0$aScience and state. 615 0$aSpace colonies in literature. 615 0$aPlanets$xEnvironmental engineering. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism in literature. 615 0$aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813/.0876209 700 $aPak$b Chris$0943849 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910132493403321 996 $aTerraforming$92130563 997 $aUNINA