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