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1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Ecofiction -- History and criticism
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Ecology in literature.
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Environmentalism in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Ecofiction
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Ecology in literature
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Environmentalism in literature
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Science fiction
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Science fiction.
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Miljöfrågor i litteraturen.
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Ekologi i litteraturen.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Canavan, Gerry, editor.
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Robinson, Kim Stanley, editor
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| ISBN |
9780819574282 |
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0819574287 |
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