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Green Planets : Ecology and Science Fiction /

Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Robinson, Kim Stanley (Editor ), Canavan, Gerry (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 people ; 8. 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 interest -- About the contributors -- Index. 
520 |a Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction. 
546 |a English. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Ekologi i litteraturen.  |2 sao 
650 7 |a Miljöfrågor i litteraturen.  |2 sao 
650 7 |a Science fiction.  |2 sao 
650 7 |a Science fiction.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01108566 
650 7 |a Environmentalism in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01903139 
650 7 |a Ecology in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00901557 
650 7 |a Ecofiction.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01749801 
650 7 |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY  |x Literary.  |2 bisacsh 
650 6 |a Environnementalisme dans la litterature. 
650 6 |a Roman ecologique  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 0 |a Environmentalism in literature. 
650 0 |a Ecology in literature. 
650 0 |a Ecofiction  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Science fiction  |x History and criticism. 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
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700 1 |a Canavan, Gerry,  |e editor. 
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