Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill
| Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/876209336 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CanavanGerry
RobinsonKim Stanley HillMindy Basinger |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Ecofiction - History and criticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8195-7428-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465023203321 |
| Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill
| Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/876209336 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CanavanGerry
RobinsonKim Stanley HillMindy Basinger |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Ecofiction - History and criticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature |
| ISBN | 0-8195-7428-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789396203321 |
| Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill
| Green planets : ecology and science fiction / / edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/876209336 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CanavanGerry
RobinsonKim Stanley HillMindy Basinger |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Ecofiction - History and criticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature |
| ISBN | 0-8195-7428-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828075503321 |
| Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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