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020 _a9781781384541
020 _z9781781382844
035 _a(OCoLC)1138055047
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aPak, Chris,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTerraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction /
_cChris Pak.
264 1 _aLiverpool :
_bLiverpool University Press,
_c2016.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2020
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a1 online resource (256 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
_v55
505 0 _aIntroduction : terraforming : engineering imaginary environments -- Landscaping nature's otherness in pre-1960s terraforming and proto-Gaian stories -- The American pastoral and the conquest of space -- Ecology and environmental awareness in 1960s-1970s -- Edging towards an eco-cosmopolitan vision -- Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy -- Conclusion.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _a"This book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar (2009). Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth--geoengineering--has begun to receive serious consideration as a way to address the effects of climate change. This book asks how science fiction has imagined the ways we shape both our world and other planets and how stories of terraforming reflect on science, society, and environmentalism. It traces the growth of the motif of terraforming in stories by such writers as H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon in the UK; American pulp science fiction by Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke; the countercultural novels of Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ernest Callenbach; Pamela Sargent's Venus trilogy; Frederick Turner's epic poem of terraforming, Genesis; and Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy. It explores terraforming as a nexus for environmental philosophy, the pastoral, ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, the politics of colonisation and habitation, tradition, and memory. This book shows how contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change are influenced by science fiction, and how terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and many other readers a motif to aid in thinking in complex ways about the human impact on planetary environments. Amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, terraforming offers an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by its world."--Page 4 of cover
546 _aEnglish.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aScience and state.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01108536
650 7 _aPlanets
_xEnvironmental engineering.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01065138
650 7 _aEnvironmentalism.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00913543
650 7 _aScience fiction.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01108566
650 7 _aSpace colonies in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01127668
650 7 _aEnvironmentalism in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01903139
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM
_xScience Fiction & Fantasy.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aScience fiction.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aFiction and related items.
_2bicssc
650 6 _aPolitique scientifique et technique.
650 6 _aColonies spatiales dans la litterature.
650 6 _aPlanetes
_xTechnique de l'environnement.
650 6 _aEnvironnementalisme dans la litterature.
650 0 _aScience and state.
650 0 _aSpace colonies in literature.
650 0 _aPlanets
_xEnvironmental engineering.
650 0 _aEnvironmentalism in literature.
650 0 _aScience fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/72671/
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