Green Planets (58 page)

Mitchell, Timothy,
10

Miyazaki, Hayao,
10
–
11

modernity/postmodernity: comas as endemic to,
163
; industrialization in
World Without Us
,
194
; political-historical agency in,
4
; posthuman nothingness in
Avatar
,
222
; postmodern loss of agency,
3
–
4
; replication of humanity in
Avatar
and,
211
–
12
,
216
; thrill-and-dread theme in,
2
; world-interconnectedness principle and,
219

Moore, Ward. See
Greener Than You Think

Morris, William,
43

Morton, Timothy,
4
,
41
,
47

Moskowitz, Sam,
49

Moylan, Tom,
179

multispecies relations,
237
–
38
.
See also
animals

Murphy, Patrick,
41
,
53

Naess, Arne,
256

nature: animal objectification in Bacigalupi,
185
–
86
,
188
; apocalyptic destruction of nature,
4
,
11
,
14
; capitalist constructed environments and,
57
; ecofeminism and,
141n18
; ecomaternalism and,
140n17
; humanity as nature in
War of the Worlds
,
26
,
29
; as humanity's other in
World Without Us
,
194
–
95
,
198
,
200
–
201
,
205n23
; intrinsic value principles in,
249
–
50
; land-based perspective on,
226
–
27
; mystical themes in SF,
256
; natural dystopia in Bacigalupi,
180
; natural population growth,
100
–
101
; originary “oceanic feeling,”
233
,
238
–
39
,
240n20
; utopian control of nature in
Men Like Gods
,
34
–
37
; water rationing in Bacigalupi,
181
.
See also
animals

neoliberalism,
12
–
13
,
18
,
184
–
85

New Wave science fiction,
80
,
82

Nigeria,
153
–
54

1984
(George Orwell),
3

nuclear power,
43
,
45
,
110
,
207

nuclear weapons/nuclear war: apocalyptic thinking and,
159
–
160
; Australian nuclear doomsday novels,
116
–
17
; Cold War SF and,
3
–
4
,
49
,
104
,
116
–
17
,
159
,
197
,
259
; Great Acceleration and,
207
; in
Sea and Summer
,
121
–
22
; SF-reality dialectic and, x; spaceship allegory and,
104
,
111
; visual representation in Gee,
134
.
See also
apocalypse
;
dystopian fiction

“Oceanic” (Greg Egan),
19
,
232
–
38

One Boat concept,
102

optimism-pessimism dialectic,
17
,
25
,
53

Osborn, Fairfield,
x

otherness.
See
alien encounters
;
robots

overpopulation.
See
population ecology

Pangborn, Edgar,
253

parody,
161
–
66
,
169
–
70

Passmore, John,
89

pastoralism: Arcadian-Utopian dialectic,
1
–
3
,
16
; in
Avatar
,
220
–
21
; British “cosy catastrophe” narratives,
79
–
80
; in
City
series,
45
–
48
; in
Earth Abides
,
52
; in ecotopian societies,
183
; pastoral ecological mode in
The Man Who Awoke
,
42
–
44
; pastoralism in
City
,
45
–
46
; pastoral new-beginning mode,
48
–
49
.
See also
primitivism
;
Romanticism

permaculture,
14
–
16
,
21n38
.
See also
sustainability

pesticides,
x
,
38n32
.
See also
pollution

Piercy, Marge,
183
,
185
,
189

planetary awareness,
207
–
8

planetary romance,
253

Plato,
223

Pohl, Fred,
40

pollution: in
The Drought
,
80
; as legal injury in Stone,
89
–
90
; 1970s environmental crises and,
65
,
68
,
100
–
101
; in “Pump Six,”
180
,
187
,
189
; in
The Sheep Look Up
,
87
; in
Soylent Green
,
10
; spaceman economy and,
6
,
9
,
104
.
See also
pesticides
;
waste spaces

population ecology:
Homo contracipiens
in Hardin,
105
–
7
; lifeboat ethics and,
109
–
10
; population ecology overview,
99
–
104
,
108
; as SF theme,
107
–
8
,
111
; wasteland as open-economy space,
111

posthuman Earths,
12
,
18
,
193
–
200
,
203n4
,
204n6
,
222
.
See also
human beings

postmodernism.
See
modernity/postmodernity

Prettyman, Gib,
256
–
57

primitivism: anachronistic permaculture in
WALL-E
,
15
–
16
; as ecotopian fiction, xi; indigenous Other in
Avatar
,
13
,
19
; Karoo as primeval landscape in
Souvenir
,
150
; post-apocalyptic robots as purveyors of,
3
; post-apocalyptic utopia and,
49
; primitive projection in
Word for World is Forest
,
88
,
90
; survivalism in
The Road
,
142n34
; traditionalism in
The Ice People
,
135
–
36
; U.S. native vs.
colonial agriculture,
86
; wasteland as new wilderness,
111
.
See also
pastoralism
;
Romanticism

Pringle, David,
78

proleptic realism,
251

Pumzi
(Wanuri Kahiu),
12

Quiet Earth post-apocalyptic theme,
11
–
12
,
18

realism: allegorical realism in science faction,
198
–
99
; disaster realism in Gee,
134
; dystopian scenarios and,
254
–
55
; as “inside” SF,
17
; proleptic realism,
251
; SF-reality dialectic,
ix
–
x
,
16
–
17
,
53
,
83
,
101
,
116
; virtual reality,
44
–
45

renaissance fantasia,
251

Rieder, John,
77

Roberts, Adam,
115
,
148

Robinson, Kim Stanley: ecological limits in,
7
–
8
; on ecotopian SF,
179
; literary and SF influences,
253
–
54
; on political activism in science,
257
–
59
; religious themes in,
256
–
57
; on SF as ecological discourse,
251
–
53
. Works:
Future Primitive
, xi;
Galileo's Dream
,
245
–
46
,
251
;
Green Mars
,
246
;
Mars
trilogy,
7
–
8
,
245
,
249
,
256
–
57
;
Pacific Edge
,
245
,
247
;
Science in the Capital
series,
127
,
244
–
45
,
257
–
58
;
2312
,
41
,
245
–
50
,
257
–
58
;
The Wild Shore
,
51
;
Years of Rice and Salt
,
256
–
57

robots: as anachronistic effects in
WALL-E
,
15
; domestic robots in
The Ice People
,
137
–
38
; as ecological limits mediators,
7
; service robots in
City
,
46
–
47
; Zeroth Law of human relations,
20n15
.
See also
alien encounters
;
technology

Robson, Jenny,
150

Rolland, Romain,
233

Romanticism,
6
,
90
.
See also
pastoralism
;
primitivism

Rosenthal, Jane,
146
–
47
,
150
. See also
Souvenir

Ross, Edward A.,
108

Salleh, Ariel,
132

Sandilands, Catriiona,
133

Sargent, Lyman Tower,
115
,
181

Sargisson, Lucy,
184

Sauer, Rob,
87

Sax, Karl,
108

Scandinavian crime novels,
143

scarcity: in
2312
,
246
; colonization of space and,
7
; in
Under the Dome
,
8
; Spaceship Earth metaphor and,
x
,
6
; in “The Tragedy of the Commons,”
106
.
See also
apocalypse
;
dystopian fiction
;
eco-catastrophe narratives
;
Spaceship Earth image
;
sustainability

science: influence in Kim Stanley Robinson,
252
–
53
; political activism in,
257
–
59
; political engagement in,
257
–
59
; scientists as SF characters,
12
,
35
,
67
–
68
,
128
,
166
,
168
,
228
–
30
,
245
; Tansley Manifesto,
30
–
32
.
See also
climate change
;
ecology
;
evolution
;
population ecology
;
technology

science faction,
18
,
195
–
200
,
204n15

science fiction.
See
ecological science fiction
;
science fiction criticism
;
speculative fiction

science fiction criticism: ecocritique affinities with,
41
–
42
; ecological literary criticism and,
53
;
Science Fiction Studies
(SFS) founding,
56
; treatment of dystopia,
116
–
17

Science Fiction Studies
(SFS),
56
,
59
,
65

Sea and Summer, The
(
Drowning Towers
, U.S. title): ecological and social collapse in,
122
–
25
; futureology in,
120
–
21
; global cooling in,
117
–
20
; plot overview,
117
–
20

Self, Will,
127

Seuss, Dr. (Theodor Seuss Geisel),
4

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
11
–
12

Shklovsky, Victor,
181

Shute, Nevil,
115
–
17

Silent Running
,
3
,
40

Simak, Clifford,
47
–
48
,
253
. See also
City
series

Singer, Peter,
89

Slonczewski, Joan,
148

Sloterdijk, Peter,
104
,
109

Smith, Adam,
108
–
9

social welfare programs,
18
,
109
–
10

Solaris
(Stanislaw Lem): human simulacra/phantoms in,
228
–
30
; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson,
254
; multispecies relations in,
238
; spatial cognition in ocean environments and,
19
,
226
–
27
,
230
–
32

Sontag, Susan,
107
–
8

South Africa:
Alive in Joburg
,
153
;
District 9
, see main heading; history of colonialism and apartheid,
143
–
44
,
150
,
153
–
54
,
157n20
; Karoo travelogue,
146
–
47
,
150
; resistance to fantasy in,
144
;
Savannah 2116
AD
,
150
; self and place in speculative fiction,
144
–
45
; SF genre in,
18
,
143
,
155
–
56
;
The Ugly Noo Noo
,
157n20
;
Zoo City
,
143