Green Planets (55 page)

Anker, Peder,
30
–
31

Anthropocene: defiant rationality in
Avatar
and,
221
–
23
; Enlightenment philosophy and,
210
; overview,
206
–
8
; scientific provenance of,
x
,
4
–
5
; SF as interpretation of,
16
.
See also
climate change
;
mass extinction

anthropocentrism.
See
human beings

apocalypse: ancient ruins as projected future,
11
–
12
; apocalyptic capitalism,
12
–
14
; apocalyptic religious discourse,
254
–
55
; class difference in apocalyptic worlds,
201
–
2
,
204n27
; early development of,
48
–
49
; in Kim Stanley Robinson,
245
–
46
; Last Man theme,
48
,
166
; natural catastrophe themes,
50
–
51
; nuclear catastrophe themes,
4
,
116
; ordinariness and anomaly in,
158
–
161
,
170
–
74
; parodies of,
161
–
66
,
169
–
170
; pastoral new-beginning mode,
49
; post-apocalyptic theme types,
3
; radical potential of doom,
12
–
13
; retained agency in,
4
; staged apocalypse in
Girlfriend in a Coma
,
161
–
66
; survival of lasting catastrophe,
10
–
11
; transformation of humanity,
13
–
14
,
169
–
73
.
See also
climate change
;
dystopian fiction
;
eco-catastrophe narratives
;
nuclear weapons/nuclear war
;
scarcity

Arata, Stephen,
77

Asimov, Isaac: ecological limits in,
7
,
20n17
. Works:
Foundation and Earth
,
20n17
;
Foundation's Edge
,
20n17
;
Before the Golden Age
,
40
;
Robots and Empire
,
7

Astounding Science Fiction Stories
,
42
,
78
. See also
City
series

Atwood, Margaret: climate change themes in,
128
,
131
; cultural alienation as theme in,
166
–
69
,
174
; eco-religion in,
257
; environmentalist ethics in,
140n7
; Quiet Earth theme in,
11
; reversal of historical expansion in,
15
. Works:
The Handmaid's Tale
,
117
;
MaddAddam
series,
257
;
Oryx and Crake
,
11
,
18
,
128
,
166
–
69
,
171
,
173
–
74
; “Time Capsule Found on the Dead
Planet,”
11
,
15
;
The Year of the Flood
,
128
,
131
,
257

Auden, W. H.,
1

austerity economics,
18

Australia: economic crisis as SF theme,
121
–
24
; Melbourne as
Sea and Summer
setting,
117
–
18
; as paradigmatic ecological site,
18
,
115
. Works:
An Appendix to the Former Work
,
115
;
On the Beach
,
115
,
116
–
17
;
Beloved Son
,
117
;
Colymbia
,
116
;
Down There in Darkness
,
117
; “The Fittest,”
117
;
La découverte australe par une homme-volant
,
115
;
L'histoire des Sévarambes
,
115
;
Melbourne and Mars
,
116
;
Mundus alter et idem
,
115
;
And Now Time Doth Waste Me
,
117
;
The Sea and Summer
(
Drowning Towers
, U.S. title),
116
–
25

Avatar
: Anthropocene thinking and,
206
; defiant rationality in,
221
–
24
; ecological interconnectedness in,
219
–
21
; human-world gap,
214
–
15
,
217
–
18
; Kantian transcendence in,
209
–
15
; metaphysical gaps in,
214
–
15
; ontological gaps in,
209
–
11
; planet-sense in,
207
–
8
; as political allegory,
13
,
19

Bacigalupi, Paolo: dystopian themes in,
180
–
83
,
188
–
89
; ecotopian transformation in,
183
–
84
,
188
–
89
; post-apocalyptic beauty in,
11
; utopian political themes in,
18
,
179
–
180
. Works: “The Calorie Man,”
181
–
82
;
The Drowned Cities
,
41
; “The People of Sand and Slag,”
179
–
80
,
183
,
185
–
86
,
188
; “Pop Squad,”
179
–
80
,
183
,
185
–
88
; “Pump Six,”
180
,
183
,
185
,
187
–
89
; “The Tamarisk Hunter,”
181
;
The Windup Girl
,
127
,
181
; “Yellow Card Man,”
181
–
82

Ballard, J. G.: apocalyptic themes in,
50
,
255
; eco-catastrophe novels by,
80
–
82
; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson,
253
–
54
. Works:
The Crystal World
,
80
,
253
–
55
;
The Drought
,
80
,
84
;
The Drowned World
,
80
,
255
;
The Wind from Nowhere
,
80

Barad, Karen,
142n27

Barry, John,
130

Barthes, Roland,
60

Beagle
(fictional spaceship),
102
–
5
,
108
,
110
–
11

Bellamy, Edward,
43

Bentham, Jeremy,
109

Bergson, Henri,
211

Berlant, Lauren,
199
–
200
,
203

Berman, Marshall,
2

Bernes, Jasper,
205n29

Berry, Wendell,
9
–
10

Beukes, Lauren,
143

biotic transfer,
82
–
83
,
86
–
88
,
91

Bleiler, Everett,
2
,
42
,
43

Blomkamp, Neill,
151
,
153
. See also
District 9

Blue Planet
,
226

Boney, A. D.,
30
–
31

Booker, M. Keith,
180
–
81

Borgstrom, Georg,
109

Bould, Mark,
ix

Boulding, Kenneth E.,
6
–
7
,
105

Boyle, T. C.,
127

Brave New World
(Aldous Huxley),
2
–
3

Brecht, Bertolt,
237
,
241n30

Bretonne, Nicolas Edme Restif de la,
115

Brin, David,
51

Brunner, John: critique of ecological imperialism,
87
; depiction of science in,
259
–
60
; ecological horror in,
11
; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson,
253
. Works:
The Sheep Look Up
,
11
,
40
,
87
,
259
–
260
;
Stand on Zanzibar
,
87
,
253

Bruno, Giordano,
251

Buckell, Tobias,
41

Buckland, Andrew,
157n20

Budrys, Algis,
81
,
84

Buell, Lawrence,
41
–
42
,
53
,
145

Burnet, Macfarlane,
123

Butler, Octavia E.,
12
–
13
,
257

Byrne, Deirdre,
143

Callenbach, Ernest: ecological utopia style,
183
,
189
; sustainability theme in,
43
. Works:
Ecotopia
,
3
,
43
,
183
,
185

Cameron, James,
13
,
220
. See also
Avatar

Campbell, John W.,
42
,
45
,
78
,
80

Cantor, Georg,
215
–
16

capitalism.
See
economy
;
Marx/Marxism

Carr, Terry,
40

Carson, Rachel: ecology of extinction in,
34
,
38n32
; referenced in
The Genocides
,
85
; scientific discourse and,
260
. Works:
Silent Spring
,
x
,
3
–
4
,
251

Chakrabarty, Dipesh,
10
,
203

Checklist of Fantastic Literature
,
2

Christoff, Peter,
116
–
17

Christopher, John,
79
–
80

cities: city-country dialectic in SF,
2
; as closed-world spaceships,
107
; Junk City post-apocalyptic theme,
3
,
10
–
11
; as sites of environmental catastrophe,
45
–
46
; techno-futurism,
48
; utopian cities,
1
–
2
.
See also
City
series
;
technology

City
series (Clifford Simak): evolution theme in,
42
–
43
,
45
,
48
,
52
; optimism-pessimism dialectic in,
17
; pastoral mode in,
45
–
48
; publication of,
42

Clareson, Thomas,
47
–
48

Clark, Brett,
184
–
85

Clarke, Arthur C.,
164

classic science fiction,
7
,
17
,
42
,
52
–
53
,
248

climate change: abrupt climate change,
244
; anthropogenic climate change in
The Ice People
,
136
; earthcare principle and,
128
–
130
,
137
–
39
; as ecological SF theme,
243
–
45
; future people viewpoint,
18
; global warming in
Souvenir
,
146
,
150
–
51
; Hansen predictions for,
192
–
93
; as Le Guin world reduction,
65
; overview of SF works,
127
–
28
; planetary awareness and,
207
–
8
; religious denial of,
254
–
55
; in
The Road
,
140n15
; scientific proof and,
213
; in
Sea and Summer
,
117
–
20
,
122
; temporality of climate change,
4
–
5

clones,
146
–
48

Club of Rome,
40

cognitive estrangement: deflationary vs. inflationary modes in,
16
; science faction and,
196
–
97
; Suvin formulation of,
xi
,
62
; in
WALL-E
,
15
; world reduction compared with,
62
–
65

Cold War: catastrophic future during,
159
; communist menace narratives,
78
–
79
;
Greener Than You Think
apocalyptic themes and,
49
; 1960s policy critique,
82
; nuclear catastrophe narratives,
4
,
116
; post-apocalyptic themes and,
3
; Spaceship Earth image and,
104

Collard, Andrée,
140n17

computers,
9
,
254

Connelly, Matthew,
100
–
101

Coupland, Douglas,
18
,
161
–
66
,
171
,
173
–
74

Crehan, Stewart,
147

Cronon, William,
83
,
86

Crosby, Alfred,
83

Crowley, John,
254

Crutzen, Paul,
x

Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr.,
159

Cuomo, Chris J.,
130
–
31

cyberpunk,
9

cyborgs,
145
,
149
,
155
,
221
–
22

Daoism: ecological leftism and,
17
,
56
–
57
,
59
–
73
; egoistic self and,
57
–
58
,
64
–
68
; yin utopianism,
62
–
68
,
72

Day after Tomorrow, The
,
245