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Preface |
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Introduction: If This Goes On GERRY CANAVAN |
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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 |
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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 |
► 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 |
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Of Further Interest |
281 |
About the Contributors |
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Index |