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dc.contributor.authorPak, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-15T13:45:47Z
dc.date.available2020-12-15T13:45:47Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43638
dc.description.abstractTerraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth—geoengineering— is receiving serious consideration as a way to address climate change. Contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change is influenced by science fiction, and terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and others a motif for thinking in complex ways about our impact on planetary environments. This book asks how science fiction has imagined how 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 science fiction from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar (2009), in stories by such writers as Olaf Stapledon, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Pamela Sargent, Frederick Turner and Kim Stanley Robinson. It argues for terraforming as a nexus for environmental philosophy, the pastoral, ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, and the politics of colonisation and habitation. Amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, terraforming offers an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by their world.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterary Criticism
dc.subject.otherSubjects & Themes
dc.subject.otherPolitics
dc.subject.otherLiterary Criticism
dc.subject.otherScience Fiction & Fantasy
dc.titleTerraforming
dc.title.alternativeEcopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
dc.typebook
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oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781781384541
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintLiverpool University Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/7125920f-dda0-49e1-947c-eaba33a8febf
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grantor.number103473


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