Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction

Contents

contents ix Preface 1 Introduction: If This Goes On Gerry CaNavaN Part 1 Arcadias and New Jerusalems 25 1 ► Extinction, Extermination, and the Ecological Optimism of H. G. Wells ChrISTINa alT 40 2 ► Evolution and Apocalypse in the Golden Age MIChael PaGe 56 3 ► Daoism, Ecology, and World Reduction in Le Guin’s Utopian Fictions GIB PreTTyMaN 77 4 ► Biotic Invasions: Ecological Imperialism in New Wave Science Fiction roB laThaM Part 2 Brave New Worlds and Lands of the Flies 99 5 ► “The Real Problem of a Spaceship Is Its People”: Spaceship Earth as Ecological Science Fiction SaBINe höhler 115 6 ► The Sea and Eternal Summer: An Australian Apocalypse aNdrew MIlNer 127 7 ► Care, Gender, and the Climate-Changed Future: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People adelINe JohNS-PuTra 143 8 ► Future Ecologies, Current Crisis: Ecological Concern in South African Speculative Fiction elzeTTe STeeNkaMP 158 9 ► Ordinary Catastrophes: Paradoxes and Problems in Some Recent Post-Apocalypse Fictions ChrISToPher PalMer Part 3 Quiet Earths, Junk Cities, and the Cultures of the Afternoon 179 10 ► “The Rain Feels New”: Ecotopian Strategies in the Short Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi erIC C. oTTo 192 11 ► Life after People: Science Faction and Ecological Futures BreNT BellaMy aNd IMre SzeMaN 206 12 ► Pandora’s Box: Avatar, Ecology, Thought TIMoThy MorToN 226 13 ► Churning Up the Depths: Nonhuman Ecologies of Metaphor in Solaris and “Oceanic” Melody Jue 243 Afterword: Still, I’m Reluctant to Call This Pessimism Gerry CaNavaN aNd kIM STaNley roBINSoN 261 Of Further Interest 281 About the Contributors 283 Index ...