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  • Hardcover: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Wesleyan; annotated edition edition (April 15, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0819574260
  • ISBN-13: 978-0819574268
  • Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA very good collection of essays on SF and environmentalism
By K. Bunker VINE VOICE on May 25, 2014
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Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book in return for a review.

In an afterword to this book, which takes the form of an interview of Kim Stanley Robinson conducted by editor Gerry Canavan, Canavan asks, "What might the people of 2100, or 2200, think about a culture that consumed stories of their radically transformed world as entertainment, while simultaneously refusing to act in the material realm?"

A darned interesting question, and one that's typical of the sorts of issues looked at in this anthology of essays dealing with ecology-themed science fiction.

Being a collection of essays by different authors, the book isn't as coherent and unified as a single-author book would be, but it does present a range of ideas and perspectives on the book's subject, and most of these make for engaging reading.

Some high points:

Chapter 3, in which Gib Prettyman discusses the influence of Dowist thought on Ursula Le Guin's fiction and in particular on her views on ecology and utopian societies.

Adeline Johns-Putra examines "ecofeminism" and related issues in chapter 7, looking at the presumption by some theorists of the essential role of the feminine in ecological awareness and "caring." The chapter focusses largely on Maggie Gee's climate-change dystopia The Ice People.

In Chapter 9, Christopher Palmer looks at some examples of recent post-apocalypse fiction. I particularly enjoyed his excellent and insightful discussion of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.Read more ›
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