Authors: Gerry Canavan
Anthropocene: defiant rationality in
Avatar
and,
221
â
23
; Enlightenment philosophy and,
210
; overview,
206
â
8
; scientific provenance of,
x
,
4
â
5
; SF as interpretation of,
16
.
See also
climate change
;
mass extinction
anthropocentrism.
See
human beings
apocalypse: ancient ruins as projected future,
11
â
12
; apocalyptic capitalism,
12
â
14
; apocalyptic religious discourse,
254
â
55
; class difference in apocalyptic worlds,
201
â
2
,
204n27
; early development of,
48
â
49
; in Kim Stanley Robinson,
245
â
46
; Last Man theme,
48
,
166
; natural catastrophe themes,
50
â
51
; nuclear catastrophe themes,
4
,
116
; ordinariness and anomaly in,
158
â
161
,
170
â
74
; parodies of,
161
â
66
,
169
â
170
; pastoral new-beginning mode,
49
; post-apocalyptic theme types,
3
; radical potential of doom,
12
â
13
; retained agency in,
4
; staged apocalypse in
Girlfriend in a Coma
,
161
â
66
; survival of lasting catastrophe,
10
â
11
; transformation of humanity,
13
â
14
,
169
â
73
.
See also
climate change
;
dystopian fiction
;
eco-catastrophe narratives
;
nuclear weapons/nuclear war
;
scarcity
Arata, Stephen,
77
Asimov, Isaac: ecological limits in,
7
,
20n17
. Works:
Foundation and Earth
,
20n17
;
Foundation's Edge
,
20n17
;
Before the Golden Age
,
40
;
Robots and Empire
,
7
Astounding Science Fiction Stories
,
42
,
78
. See also
City
series
Atwood, Margaret: climate change themes in,
128
,
131
; cultural alienation as theme in,
166
â
69
,
174
; eco-religion in,
257
; environmentalist ethics in,
140n7
; Quiet Earth theme in,
11
; reversal of historical expansion in,
15
. Works:
The Handmaid's Tale
,
117
;
MaddAddam
series,
257
;
Oryx and Crake
,
11
,
18
,
128
,
166
â
69
,
171
,
173
â
74
; “Time Capsule Found on the Dead
Planet,”
11
,
15
;
The Year of the Flood
,
128
,
131
,
257
Auden, W. H.,
1
austerity economics,
18
Australia: economic crisis as SF theme,
121
â
24
; Melbourne as
Sea and Summer
setting,
117
â
18
; as paradigmatic ecological site,
18
,
115
. Works:
An Appendix to the Former Work
,
115
;
On the Beach
,
115
,
116
â
17
;
Beloved Son
,
117
;
Colymbia
,
116
;
Down There in Darkness
,
117
; “The Fittest,”
117
;
La découverte australe par une homme-volant
,
115
;
L'histoire des Sévarambes
,
115
;
Melbourne and Mars
,
116
;
Mundus alter et idem
,
115
;
And Now Time Doth Waste Me
,
117
;
The Sea and Summer
(
Drowning Towers
, U.S. title),
116
â
25
Avatar
: Anthropocene thinking and,
206
; defiant rationality in,
221
â
24
; ecological interconnectedness in,
219
â
21
; human-world gap,
214
â
15
,
217
â
18
; Kantian transcendence in,
209
â
15
; metaphysical gaps in,
214
â
15
; ontological gaps in,
209
â
11
; planet-sense in,
207
â
8
; as political allegory,
13
,
19
Bacigalupi, Paolo: dystopian themes in,
180
â
83
,
188
â
89
; ecotopian transformation in,
183
â
84
,
188
â
89
; post-apocalyptic beauty in,
11
; utopian political themes in,
18
,
179
â
180
. Works: “The Calorie Man,”
181
â
82
;
The Drowned Cities
,
41
; “The People of Sand and Slag,”
179
â
80
,
183
,
185
â
86
,
188
; “Pop Squad,”
179
â
80
,
183
,
185
â
88
; “Pump Six,”
180
,
183
,
185
,
187
â
89
; “The Tamarisk Hunter,”
181
;
The Windup Girl
,
127
,
181
; “Yellow Card Man,”
181
â
82
Ballard, J. G.: apocalyptic themes in,
50
,
255
; eco-catastrophe novels by,
80
â
82
; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson,
253
â
54
. Works:
The Crystal World
,
80
,
253
â
55
;
The Drought
,
80
,
84
;
The Drowned World
,
80
,
255
;
The Wind from Nowhere
,
80
Barad, Karen,
142n27
Barry, John,
130
Barthes, Roland,
60
Beagle
(fictional spaceship),
102
â
5
,
108
,
110
â
11
Bellamy, Edward,
43
Bentham, Jeremy,
109
Bergson, Henri,
211
Berman, Marshall,
2
Bernes, Jasper,
205n29
Beukes, Lauren,
143
biotic transfer,
82
â
83
,
86
â
88
,
91
Blomkamp, Neill,
151
,
153
. See also
District 9
Blue Planet
,
226
Borgstrom, Georg,
109
Bould, Mark,
ix
Boulding, Kenneth E.,
6
â
7
,
105
Boyle, T. C.,
127
Brave New World
(Aldous Huxley),
2
â
3
Bretonne, Nicolas Edme Restif de la,
115
Brin, David,
51
Brunner, John: critique of ecological imperialism,
87
; depiction of science in,
259
â
60
; ecological horror in,
11
; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson,
253
. Works:
The Sheep Look Up
,
11
,
40
,
87
,
259
â
260
;
Stand on Zanzibar
,
87
,
253
Bruno, Giordano,
251
Buckell, Tobias,
41
Buckland, Andrew,
157n20
Buell, Lawrence,
41
â
42
,
53
,
145
Burnet, Macfarlane,
123
Butler, Octavia E.,
12
â
13
,
257
Byrne, Deirdre,
143
Callenbach, Ernest: ecological utopia style,
183
,
189
; sustainability theme in,
43
. Works:
Ecotopia
,
3
,
43
,
183
,
185
Cameron, James,
13
,
220
. See also
Avatar
capitalism.
See
economy
;
Marx/Marxism
Carr, Terry,
40
Carson, Rachel: ecology of extinction in,
34
,
38n32
; referenced in
The Genocides
,
85
; scientific discourse and,
260
. Works:
Silent Spring
,
x
,
3
â
4
,
251
Checklist of Fantastic Literature
,
2
cities: city-country dialectic in SF,
2
; as closed-world spaceships,
107
; Junk City post-apocalyptic theme,
3
,
10
â
11
; as sites of environmental catastrophe,
45
â
46
; techno-futurism,
48
; utopian cities,
1
â
2
.
See also
City
series
;
technology
City
series (Clifford Simak): evolution theme in,
42
â
43
,
45
,
48
,
52
; optimism-pessimism dialectic in,
17
; pastoral mode in,
45
â
48
; publication of,
42
Clarke, Arthur C.,
164
classic science fiction,
7
,
17
,
42
,
52
â
53
,
248
climate change: abrupt climate change,
244
; anthropogenic climate change in
The Ice People
,
136
; earthcare principle and,
128
â
130
,
137
â
39
; as ecological SF theme,
243
â
45
; future people viewpoint,
18
; global warming in
Souvenir
,
146
,
150
â
51
; Hansen predictions for,
192
â
93
; as Le Guin world reduction,
65
; overview of SF works,
127
â
28
; planetary awareness and,
207
â
8
; religious denial of,
254
â
55
; in
The Road
,
140n15
; scientific proof and,
213
; in
Sea and Summer
,
117
â
20
,
122
; temporality of climate change,
4
â
5
Club of Rome,
40
cognitive estrangement: deflationary vs. inflationary modes in,
16
; science faction and,
196
â
97
; Suvin formulation of,
xi
,
62
; in
WALL-E
,
15
; world reduction compared with,
62
â
65
Cold War: catastrophic future during,
159
; communist menace narratives,
78
â
79
;
Greener Than You Think
apocalyptic themes and,
49
; 1960s policy critique,
82
; nuclear catastrophe narratives,
4
,
116
; post-apocalyptic themes and,
3
; Spaceship Earth image and,
104
Collard, Andrée,
140n17
Coupland, Douglas,
18
,
161
â
66
,
171
,
173
â
74
Crehan, Stewart,
147
Crosby, Alfred,
83
Crowley, John,
254
Crutzen, Paul,
x
Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr.,
159
cyberpunk,
9
Daoism: ecological leftism and,
17
,
56
â
57
,
59
â
73
; egoistic self and,
57
â
58
,
64
â
68
; yin utopianism,
62
â
68
,
72
Day after Tomorrow, The
,
245