Plants in Science Fiction
Speculative Vegetation
Distributed for University of Wales Press
272 pages
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5 1/4 x 8 1/4
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
rboreal Assemblages in Holdstock and Han - Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
Accord
Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins’s Jitterbug Perfume - Yogi Hale Hendli
The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan’s Queen City Jazz - Graham J. Murphy
Queer Ingestions: Weird, Vegetative Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction - Alison Sperling
The Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation - Katherine E. Bishop
Selected Bibliography
Index
Accord
Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins’s Jitterbug Perfume - Yogi Hale Hendli
The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan’s Queen City Jazz - Graham J. Murphy
Queer Ingestions: Weird, Vegetative Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction - Alison Sperling
The Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation - Katherine E. Bishop
Selected Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Eric Otto, Florida Gulf Coast University
“Science fiction teaches us to ‘be-with others better.’ This is the core argument of Plants in Science Fiction, captured in one of its chapters and suffused throughout. Readers will come away with a profound and challenging understanding of what it means to be human, as well as a deep appreciation for the critical function of science fiction in a threatened world.”
Scott Slovic, Editor-in-Chief, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
“Plants in Science Fiction demonstrates that science fiction and ecocriticism have much to say to each other. By considering ‘speculative vegetation,’ of course, we learn much about our own lives in the present moment on Earth.’
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