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Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction

Gerry Canavan & Kim Stanley Robinson

First published 2014
Publisher Wesleyan University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiv+295
Price $85.00
ISBN 9780819574268

  • Issued without dust jacket
  • Price from publisher's website; it does not appear on the publication itself
  • Number line: 5 4 3 2 1

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: If This Goes On (Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction) Gerry Canavan Essay
25 Extinction, Extermination, and the Ecological Optimism of H. G. Wells Christina Alt Essay
40 Evolution and Apocalypse in the Golden Age Michael Page Essay
56 Daoism, Ecology, and World Reduction in Le Guin's Utopian Fictions Gib Prettyman Essay
77 Biotic Invasions: Ecological Imperialism in New Wave Science Fiction Rob Latham Essay
99 "The Real Problem of a Spaceship Is Its People": Spaceship Earth As Ecological Science Fiction Sabine Höhler Essay
115 The Sea and Eternal Summer: An Australian Apocalypse Andrew Milner Essay
127 Care, Gender, and the Climate-Changed Future: Maggie Gee's The Ice People Adeline Johns-Putra Essay
143 Future Ecologies, Current Crisis: Ecological Concern in South African Speculative Fiction Elzette Steenkamp Essay
158 Ordinary Catastrophes: Paradoxes and Problems in Some Recent Post-Apocalypse Fictions Christopher Palmer Essay
179 "The Rain Feels New": Ecotopian Strategies in the Short Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi Eric C. Otto Essay
192 Life After People: Science Faction and Ecological Futures Brent Bellamy & Imre Szeman Essay
206 Pandora's Box: Avatar, Ecology, Thought Timothy Morton Essay
226 Churning Up the Depths: Nonhuman Ecologies of Metaphor in Solaris and "Oceanic" Melody Jue Essay
243 Afterword: Still, I'm Reluctant to Call This Pessimism Gerry Canavan & Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
261 Of Further Interest Gerry Canavan Essay
ix Preface (Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction) Gerry Canavan Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction Cover 2014 Wesleyan University Press Trade Paperback Nonfiction Brian Kinney xiv+295