
Green Planets
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Content
- Cover
- GREEN PLANETS
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- 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
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