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Plants in science fiction
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- Book Synopsis
- Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film. John Wyndham's triffids, Algernon Blackwood's willows and Han Kang's sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations and inhabit our metaphors - but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet, literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads of science fictional inquiry, by the concerns of today. Plants in Science Fiction is the first-ever collected volume on plants in science fiction, and its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics and cultural life at large - questioning and shifting our understandings of institutions, nations, borders and boundaries; erecting and dismantling new visions of utopian and dystopian futures.
- About The Author
- All levels of academic readers will find value in this collection (English, science fiction studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism) as will any number of lay readers.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781786835598
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press, (01 May 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 458 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 21 mm
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