Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction

Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction

Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green Planets consider how science fiction writers have been working through this crisis. Beginning with H. G. Wells and passing through major twentieth-century writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, and Thomas Disch to contemporary authors like Margaret Atwood, China MiÃ©ville, and Paolo Bacigalupiâ€”as well as recent blockbuster films like Avatar and District 9â€”the essays in Green Planets consider the important place for science fiction in a culture that now seems to have a very uncertain future. The book includes an extended interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and an annotated list for further exploration of â€œecological SFâ€ and related works of fiction, nonfiction, films, television, comics, childrenâ€™s cartoons, anime, video games, music, and more.

Contributors include Christina Alt, Brent Bellamy, Sabine HÃ¶hler, Adeline Johns-Putra, Melody Jue, Rob Latham, Andrew Milner, Timothy Morton, Eric C. Otto, Michael Page, Christopher Palmer, Gib Prettyman, Elzette Steenkamp, Imre Szeman.
Country USA
Brand Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer Wesleyan University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780819574275
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780819574275
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer	Wesleyan University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780819574275
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780819574275
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction

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