Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction

Index

index Alaimo, Stacey, 41 Aldiss, Brian, 7, 47, 77, 81 alien encounters: advanced extraterrestrials in H. G. Wells, 25–28; alien other in South African SF, 145, 149; alien susceptibility to bacteria in War of the Worlds, 27; in Avatar, 220–24; British “cosy catastrophe” narratives, 79–80; colonized earth in The Genocides, 81; cyborgs, 145, 149, 155, 221; empathy emergence in War of the Worlds, 29–30; “first contact” narratives, 77; human/ animal couplings in District 9, 151, 154–55; human simulacra/phantoms in Solaris, 228–30; indigenous Other in Avatar, 13, 19; Martians in City, 46; 1950s alien menace narratives, 78–79; sympathetic prawns in District 9, 151–52, 154–55, 157n20. See also human beings; robots Amazing Stories, 2, 42 Anderson, Perry, 158 animals: animal objectification in Bacigalupi, 185–86, 188; animal rights movement, 89–90; dog paradise in City, 47; human-animal analogy in H. G. Wells, 27–28, 36–37, 250; humananimal couplings in District 9, 151, 154–55; nonhuman values and, 250; primitivist conceptions of, xi. See also human beings; mass extinction; multispecies relations; nature Anker, Peder, 30–31 Anthropocene: defiant rationality in Avatar and, 221–23; Enlightenment philosophy and, 210; overview, 206–8; scientific provenance of, x, 4–5; SF as interpretation of, 16. See also climate change; mass extinction anthropocentrism. See human beings apocalypse: ancient ruins as projected future, 11–12; apocalyptic capitalism, 12–14; apocalyptic religious discourse, 254–55; class difference in apocalyptic worlds, 201–2, 204n27; early development of, 48–49; in Kim Stanley Robinson, 245–46; Last Man theme, 48, 166; natural catastrophe themes, 50–51; nuclear catastrophe themes, 4, 116; ordinariness and anomaly in, 158–161, 170–74; parodies of, 161–66, 169–170; pastoral new-beginning mode, 49; post-apocalyptic theme types, 3; radical potential of doom, 12–13; retained agency in, 4; staged apocalypse in Girlfriend in a Coma, 161–66; survival of lasting catastrophe, 10–11; transformation of humanity, 13–14, 169–73. See also climate change; dystopian fiction; ecocatastrophe narratives; nuclear weapons/ nuclear war; scarcity Arata, Stephen, 77 Asimov, Isaac: ecological limits in, 7, 20n17. Works: Foundation and Earth, 20n17; Foundation’s Edge, 20n17; Before the Golden Age, 40; Robots and Empire, 7 Astounding Science Fiction Stories, 42, 78. See also City series Atwood, Margaret: climate change themes in, 128, 131; cultural alienation as theme in, 166–69, 174; eco-religion in, 257; environmentalist ethics in, 140n7; Quiet Earth theme in, 11; reversal of historical expansion in, 15. Works: The Handmaid’s Tale, 117; MaddAddam series, 257; Oryx and Crake, 11, 18, 128, 166–69, 171, 173–74; “Time Capsule Found on the Dead 284 i nde x Planet,” 11, 15; The Year of the Flood, 128, 131, 257 Auden, W. H., 1 austerity economics, 18 Australia: economic crisis as SF theme, 121–24; Melbourne as Sea and Summer setting, 117–18; as paradigmatic ecological site, 18, 115. Works: An Appendix to the Former Work, 115; On the Beach, 115, 116–17; Beloved Son, 117; Colymbia, 116; Down There in Darkness, 117; “The Fittest,” 117; La découverte australe par une homme-volant, 115; L’histoire des Sévarambes, 115; Melbourne and Mars, 116; Mundus alter et idem, 115; And Now Time Doth Waste Me, 117; The Sea and Summer (Drowning Towers, U.S. title), 116–25 Avatar: Anthropocene thinking and, 206; defiant rationality in, 221–24; ecological interconnectedness in, 219–21; humanworld gap, 214–15, 217–18; Kantian transcendence in, 209–15; metaphysical gaps in, 214–15; ontological gaps in, 209–11; planet-sense in, 207–8; as political allegory, 13, 19 Bacigalupi, Paolo: dystopian themes in, 180–83, 188–89; ecotopian transformation in, 183–84, 188–89; post-apocalyptic beauty in, 11; utopian political themes in, 18, 179–180. Works: “The Calorie Man,” 181–82; The Drowned Cities, 41; “The People of Sand and Slag,” 179–80, 183, 185–86, 188; “Pop Squad,” 179–80, 183, 185–88; “Pump Six,” 180, 183, 185, 187–89; “The Tamarisk Hunter,” 181; The Windup Girl, 127, 181; “Yellow Card Man,” 181–82 Ballard, J. G.: apocalyptic themes in, 50, 255; eco-catastrophe novels by, 80–82; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson, 253– 54. Works: The Crystal World, 80, 253–55; The Drought, 80, 84; The Drowned World, 80, 255; The Wind from Nowhere, 80 Barad, Karen, 142n27 Barry, John, 130 Barthes, Roland, 60 Beagle (fictional spaceship), 102–5, 108, 110–11 Bellamy, Edward, 43 Bentham, Jeremy, 109 Bergson, Henri, 211 Berlant, Lauren, 199–200, 203...