| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) |
| Series |
New dimensions in science fiction |
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New dimensions in science fiction.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Series Editors' Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction -- Part 1: Abjection -- 1. Weird Flora: Plant Life in the Classic Weird Tale -- 2. 'Bloody unnatural brutes': Anthropomorphism, Colonialism and the Return of the Repressed in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids -- 3. Botanical Tentacles and the Chthulucene -- Part 2: Affinity -- 4. Between the Living and the Dead: Vegetal Afterlives in Evgenii Iufit and Vladimir Maslov's Silver Heads |
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5. Vegetable Love: Desire, Feeling and Sexuality in Botanical Fiction -- 6. Alternative Reproduction: Plant-time and Human/Arboreal Assemblages in Holdstock and Han -- Part 3: Accord -- 7. Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume -- 8. The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan's Queen City Jazz -- 9. Queer Ingestions: Weird and Sporous Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction -- 10. The Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes |
| Summary |
Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of flora |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plants in literature.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Speculative fiction -- History and criticism
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Plants in literature
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Science fiction
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Speculative fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bishop, Katherine E., editor
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Higgins, David, editor
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Määttä, Jerry, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781786835604 |
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1786835606 |
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9781786835611 |
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1786835614 |
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9781786835628 |
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1786835622 |
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