GREEN PLANETS/ ECOLOGY AND SCIENCE FICTION

Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism o n the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrop hic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green Planets consider how science fiction writers have been working through this crisis. Beginning with H. G. Wells and passing through m ajor twen...[Llegir més]