Overview

The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on depictions of the future that include, but move beyond, dystopias and offer us ways to imagine reinventing ourselves and our perspectives; especially our links to and views of new environments. There are ecocritical texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses on the intersection of the two.

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Author:   Susan M. Bernardo ,  Donald E. Palumbo ,  C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   44
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780786475797

ISBN 10:   078647579
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   26 March 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments  vii Introduction  1 Part One. In the Margins: Recentering Individuals, Societies and Environments Heterotopian Possibilities in Science Fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin (Lauren J. Lacey) Acceptance of the Marginalized in Marge Piercy’s He, She, It and Melissa Scott’s Trouble and Her Friends (Melanie A. Marotta) Anathem’s Flows of Power: State Space and Nomadology on a Cloistered Planet (Jonathan P. Lewis) Part Two. Shifting Worlds Through ­Re-Creation Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts: Deterritorializing Land and Language (Adam Lawrence) 64 Mary Shelley’s Literary Laboratory: Frankenstein and the Emergence of the Modern Laboratory in ­Nineteenth-Century Europe (Matthew Hadley) Ecotopian London: Morris’s Geography of Conservation (Margaret S. Kennedy) Part Three. Re-Viewing Damaged Worlds Through Quests Underworlds of Despair and Hope in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (Justin T. Noetzel) The Silence of the Subaltern: The Rejection of History and Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome (Shayani Bhattacharya) A Case of Terraphilia: Longing for Place and Community in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Susan M. Bernardo) Discursive Transgressions and Ideological Negotiations: From Orwell’s 1984 to Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Keith Elphick) About the Contributors Index

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the book's diversity makes it relevant to a wide readership...adds to the field in thought-provoking ways --<i>Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction</i>.

the book's diversity makes it relevant to a wide readership...adds to the field in thought-provoking ways --Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.

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Susan M. Bernardo is a professor emerita at Wagner College. She lives in Glen Gardner, New Jersey.

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