Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill

• Pubblicazione: Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/876209336
• Soggetto topico: Science fiction - History and criticism; Ecofiction - History and criticism; Ecology in literature; Environmentalism in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CanavanGerry RobinsonKim Stanley HillMindy Basinger
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Ecologies of Metaphor in Solaris and "Oceanic"; Afterword: Still, I'm Reluctant to Call This Pessimism ; Of Further InterestAbout the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction
• Titolo autorizzato: Green planets
• ISBN: 0-8195-7428-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465023203321
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