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Index
Cover
Title Page
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
Part 3 Quiet Earths, Junk Cities, and the Cultures of the Afternoon
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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