Green Planets (57 page)

Gloss, Molly,
254

Glotfelty, Cheryll,
41

Gore, Al,
8

Gorz, André,
75n40

government: allegory of Apartheid in
District 9
,
153
,
157n20
; apocalyptic government in
The Sea and Summer
,
124
; population control in Spaceship Beagle,
99
,
105
–
6
,
108
–
9
; satirical government in
The Telling
,
67
; social welfare programs,
18
,
109
–
10
; totalitarianism in
1984
,
3
; Wicca government in
The Ice People
,
137
–
38

Grainville, Cousin de,
48

Greener Than You Think
(Ward Moore): optimism-pessimism dialectic in,
17
; plot overview,
49
–
50
; publication of,
42
; satiric-ironic apocalypse in,
49

Guattari, Félix,
217

Hall, Joseph,
115

Hansen, James,
192

Haraway, Donna,
149
,
219

Harbach, Chad,
9

Hardin, Garrett: on capitalist economics,
103
–
4
,
109
; on the commons resource system,
106
,
109
; on lifeboat ethics,
18
,
103
,
109
–
11
; Spaceship Beagle account,
102
–
5
,
108
,
110
–
11
. Works:
Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle
,
102
–
11
; “The Tragedy of the Commons,”
106

Harman, Graham,
214

Harrison, Harry,
40

Hartwell, David,
81
,
85

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
210
–
11

Heglin, Peter,
115

Heidegger, Martin,
206
–
7
,
214
,
217
–
19
,
222

Heinlein, Robert: alien invasion narratives,
78
; on the categories of SF,
12
–
13
; ecological limits in,
7
. Works:
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
,
7
,
81
;
The Puppet Masters
,
78
–
79
;
Sixth Column
,
78

Heise, Ursala,
8
,
41
,
208

Helmreich, Stefan,
238

Hendershot, Cyndy,
79

Herbert, Frank: ecological extrapolation in,
87
; on environmental SF,
40
; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson,
253
. Works:
Dune
,
41
,
87
,
253
;
The Wounded Planet
,
40

history.
See
time and temporality

Horowitz, David,
82

Huber, François,
28

Hudson, W. H.,
43

human beings: Anthropocene,
x
,
4
–
5
,
16
; computer representations of consciousness,
254
; ecology as critique of anthropocentrism,
57
; gendered nonhuman agency,
142n27
;
Homo contracipiens
in Hardin,
105
–
7
; human-animal analogy in H. G. Wells,
27
–
28
,
36
–
37
; human-centeredness in Le Guin,
90
; human characterization in SF,
144
; human chauvinism in Golden Age SF,
78
; human exceptionalism,
26
–
29
,
52
,
214
–
15
; human-nonhuman connection in Bacigalupi,
180
; human simulacra/phantoms in
Solaris
,
228
–
30
; hybrids/cyborgs as other,
149
–
50
; immortality in
Bacigalupi's “Pop Squad,”
186
–
87
; mass extinction in
Men Like Gods
,
17
,
32
–
35
,
37
; mass extinction in
The Genocides
,
85
–
86
; multispecies relations,
237
–
38
; nonhuman values and,
250
; ontological gaps in
Avatar
,
209
–
11
; originary “oceanic feeling” of,
233
,
238
–
39
,
240n20
.
See also
alien encounters
;
animals
;
posthuman Earths
;
transformation of humanity

Hume, David,
213

Husserl, Edmund,
215

Huxley, Aldous,
2
–
3

Huxley, Julian,
31

Huxley, T. H.,
43

hydroponic agriculture,
45

imperialism: biological vulnerability to pathogens and,
83
; British postimperial narratives,
79
–
80
; Earth-centric colonization discourse,
254
; ecological imperialism,
82
–
83
,
86
–
91
; “first contact” narratives and,
77
; historical models for
Word for World is Forest
,
88
–
89
; human exceptionalism in
War of the Worlds
,
26
–
27
; post-imperial Other in
Avatar
,
13
,
19
,
206
; as root of ecological crisis,
91
; solar system as limit on,
248
–
49
; South African colonialism,
143
–
44
; surface/depth ocean study and,
227

individualism/libertarianism,
44
–
45

Invaders from Mars
,
79

Invasion U.S.A.
,
79

Jameson, Fredric: on allegorical realism,
198
–
99
; on imperialist fatalism in Ballard,
80
; on political ecology in Le Guin,
56
–
58
,
60
–
62
,
72
; on postmodernism,
4
,
168
; on the unimaginability of the future,
184
; on the “Unknowability Thesis” in
Solaris
,
228
,
230
; on Utopia,
14
,
60
–
61
,
116

Jasanoff, Sheila,
127

Jendrysik, Mark,
202

Joyce, James,
16

Kahiu, Wanuri,
12

Kant, Immanuel: defiant rationality in
Avatar
and,
221
–
24
; narratives of the future and,
193
; opening of the Anthropocene and,
206
,
210
–
11
; relationist ontology and,
219
; transcendence in
Avatar
and,
209
–
15

Kapp, K. William,
12

Karoo travelogue,
146
–
47
,
150

Kepler, Johannes,
251

Kidd, Virginia,
40
,
87

Kierkegaard, Søren,
13
–
14

King, Stephen,
8
,
51

Kirksey, S. Eben,
238

Klein, Melanie,
221
–
22

Knickerbocker, Dale,
182

Kolko, Gabriel,
82

Kovel, Joel,
57
–
58
,
65

Kunkel, Benjamin,
5

Lang, Fritz,
44

Laozi (Lao Tzu),
59
,
63
–
64
,
66

Last Man theme,
48
,
166

Lee, Richard B.,
x

Le Guin, Ursula K.: critique of ecological imperialism,
40
,
87
–
91
; Daoism in,
17
,
59
–
73
; ecological issues in,
40
; environmentalist movement and,
56
–
57
,
89
; influence on Kim Stanley Robinson,
253
; Marxist perspective on,
56
,
59
–
73
; ordinariness and anomaly in,
160
–
61
; political alienation in,
60
–
63
; Suvin affiliation with,
58
–
59
; on technology in SF,
144
; world reduction in,
61
,
62
–
73
; on yin utopianism,
62
–
68
,
72
. Works:
Always Coming Home
,
62
,
67
–
71
;
City of Illusions
,
59
,
68
,
253
;
The Dispossessed
,
56
,
59
,
61
,
67
–
69
;
The Lathe of Heaven
,
67
,
160
–
61
,
168
,
171
;
The Left Hand of Darkness
,
41
,
61
,
69
,
90
; “The New Atlantis,”
59
,
67
; “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place to Be,”
63
;
Planet of Exile
,
59
;
Rocannon's World
,
59
; “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown,”
144
;
The Telling
,
62
,
67
–
69
,
71
;
The Word for World is Forest
,
17
,
60
,
67

Lem, Stanislaw,
228
,
230
. See also
Solaris

Lessing, Doris,
127
–
28
,
131

Le Vailllant, François,
147

Levitas, Ruth,
188

Levy, Michael,
148

Lewis, C. S.,
37

Life after People
,
18

lifeboat ethics,
18
,
103
,
109
–
11

Logan's Run
,
40
,
107

London (United Kingdom),
169
–
70

London, Jack,
51

Love, Glen A.,
41
,
53

Lubbock, John,
28

Luckhurst, Roger,
251

MacLeod, Ken,
254

Magdoff, Harry,
82

Man Who Awoke, The
(Laurence Manning): energy crisis in,
40
; evolution theme in,
42
–
43
,
52
; literary sources for,
43
; optimism-pessimism dialectic in,
17
; publication of,
42

Martians,
25
–
28
,
46
.
See also
alien encounters

Marx/Marxism: absence of the political in science faction,
202
; on Australia as economic frontier,
115
; critical theory,
199
; cyclical history in,
15
; deep ecology and,
256
; deflationary vs. inflationary critique in,
16
; Eastern religion and,
256
–
57
; financial crisis in
Sea and Summer
and,
122
–
24
; global surplus labor and,
205n29
; Le Guin ecological Daoism and,
56
–
73
; Martian radicalism in the
Mars
trilogy,
249
; social justice as survival technology,
259
; Spaceship Beagle steady-state society,
102
–
3
; vampire capitalism in
Daybreakers
,
13
.
See also
economy

mass extinction: “climate change” term and,
243
; Darwinian model for,
43
; ecology of extinction in Rachel Carson,
34
,
38n32
; ecopoesis in “Oceanic” and,
234
; in
The Genocides
,
85
–
86
; in
Men Like Gods
,
17
,
32
–
35
,
37
; Quiet Earth theme and,
11
; SF-reality dialectic and,
ix
–
x
,
11
,
193
,
244
; technology as means of avoidance,
35
,
243
; utopian reversal in
2312
,
250
; in
War of the Worlds
,
26
–
27
.
See also
Anthropocene

materialism (in
The Time Machine
),
2

McCaffrey, Andy,
146

McCarthy, Cormac,
127
,
140n15

McKay, Chris,
249

McNeill, J. R.,
91

McNeill, William,
83

Mellor, Mary,
132
,
141n18

Mendel, Gregor,
30

Mendlesohn, Farah,
53

Men Like Gods
(H. G. Wells),
17
,
25
,
32
–
34
,
37

Merchant, Carolyn,
129
–
30

Merril, Judith,
81

Miéville, China: ordinariness and anomaly in,
170
–
73
; on postapocalyptic endings,
159
. Works:
Kraken
,
18
,
159
,
169
–
74
;
Red Planets
,
ix

Milling, Jill,
48