Green Planets (59 page)

Souvenir
(Jane Rosenthal): apocalyptic futurity in,
18
; climate change themes in,
146
,
150
–
51
; as travel narrative,
146
–
47
,
150

Soylent Green
(Richard Fleischer),
3
,
10
,
40
,
107

space exploration/colonization themes: closed ecological economy theme,
6
–
9
; Earth-centrism in,
254
; Golden Age “space empire” literature,
7
; NASA Earth photographic images,
7
; shared universe in Asimov,
7

Spaceship Earth image: arks compared with,
109
; closed economy as theory for,
6
–
9
; Cold War and,
104
; commons resource system,
106
,
109
; lifeboat ethics,
18
,
103
,
109
–
11
; NASA Earth photographic images,
8
–
9
; scarcity discourse and, x; as science fiction,
17
–
18
; Spaceship Beagle carrying capacity,
102
; wasteland as open-economy space,
111
.
See also
scarcity
;
sustainability

speculative fiction,
ix
,
155
–
56

Spinoza, Baruch de,
208
–
11
,
219

Stableford, Brian,
41
,
159

Stapledon, Olaf: evolutionary SF by,
42
–
43
; evolution ethics in,
43
; on “human chauvinism” in golden age works,
78
. Works:
Last and First Men
,
37
,
42
–
43

Star Trek
,
170
,
172
,
251

steampunk movement,
15

Stern, Michael,
87

Stevenson, Adlai E.,
104

Stewart, George R.,
51
. See also
Earth Abides

Stillman, Peter,
56

Stone, Christopher,
89
–
90
,
249

Strand, Clark,
204n15

sustainability: anti-sustainability backlash in
The Man Who Awoke
,
44
; Darwinian evolutionary model for,
43
; neoliberal capitalism and,
184
–
85
; permaculture,
14
–
16
,
21n38
; sustainability themes in SF,
xi
,
43
–
44
.
See also
scarcity
;
Spaceship Earth image

Suvin, Darko: on cognitive estrangement,
xi
,
62
,
181
,
196
–
97
; on human transformation,
14
; on pastoralism in Simak,
48
; on political ecology in Le Guin,
56
–
60
,
67
,
72

Suzuki, David,
193

Szeman, Imre,
12

Tansley, A. G. (“Tansley Manifesto”),
30
–
32

tar sands oil extraction,
192

Taylor, Alan,
83

Taylor, Gordon Rattary,
40

technology: anti-ecological effects of,
251
–
52
; decayed technology in Bacigalupi's “Pump Six,”
180
,
187
–
88
; dystopian stage in
The Man Who Awoke
,
44
; future technology in
The Ice People
,
134
;
The Genocides
as shift in view of,
87
; human characterization in SF and,
144
; invention of cell phones,
ix
–
x
; 1960s anti-technological New Wave,
80
; scientific overreach in
Island of Dr. Moreau
,
25
; SF-reality gap narrowing,
ix
–
x
; steampunk movement and,
15
; technological world in
Avatar
,
219
–
222
; utopian mastery of nature in
Men Like Gods
,
34
–
35
.
See also
robots

Thompson, Flora,
254

Tidwell, Christy,
185
–
86

time and temporality: ancient ruins as projected future,
11
–
12
; Cold War catastrophic future,
159
; cyclical history in
WALL-E
,
15
–
16
; future as ironic present in
Soylent Green
,
10
; future-fictional uchronias,
116
; futureology in
Sea and Summer
,
120
–
21
; futuristic style in ecological writing,
192
–
93
; nonsustainability as robbing the future,
250
–
51
; radical potential of doom,
12
–
13
; re-lived futurity in
Girlfriend in a Coma
,
161
–
66
; temporality of climate change,
4
–
5
; utopia as historical other,
14

totalitarianism,
3

transformation of humanity: apocalyptic transformation,
169
–
73
; post-consumerism in
Daybreakers
,
13
–
14
; post-imperial Other in
Avatar
,
13
,
19
.
See also
human beings

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin,
254

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
6

Turner, George: career,
117
; futureology in
Sea and Summer
,
120
–
21
;
Sea and Summer
overview,
117
–
20
; on SF political/moral efficacy,
116
. Works:
Beloved Son
,
117
;
Down There in Darkness
,
117
; “The Fittest,”
117
;
And Now Time Doth Waste Me
,
117
;
The Sea and Summer
(
Drowning Towers
, U.S. title),
116
–
21

United Nations,
102
,
109

Unknowability Thesis,
228
,
230

utopia: animal utopia in
City
,
47
; Arcadian-Utopian dialectic,
1
–
3
,
16
; Australia in utopian fiction,
115
–
16
; cognitive estrangement and,
xi
,
62
; critical utopian tradition,
179
; historical otherness and,
14
; Le Guin non-capitalist utopias,
56
,
59
; planetary awareness and,
207
–
8
; as political desire,
60
–
61
; religious utopia,
255
–
56
; science faction as anti-utopian,
202
–
3
; utopian possibility in Kim Stanley Robinson,
246
–
47
; utopian world in
Men Like Gods
,
32
; world reduction in,
61
,
62
–
73
; yin utopianism,
62
–
68
,
72
.
See also
ecotopia

Vacca, Roberto,
40

vampires,
13
–
14

Vance, Jack,
253

Van Vogt, A. E.,
78

Veiras, Denis,
115

Venter, Eben,
150

Verne, Jules,
104
,
253

Vietnam War,
88

virtual reality,
44
–
45

virtual space,
9

Wagar, W. Warren,
49

WALL-E
,
3
,
14
–
16

Walton, Robyn,
116

Ward, Barbara,
104
,
107

War of the Worlds, The
(H. G. Wells): overview,
26
–
30
; advanced extraterrestrials in,
25
–
26
,
34
; apocalyptic theme in,
48
–
49
; as “first contact” narrative,
77

waste spaces,
11
,
31
,
49
,
51
,
107
,
111
.
See also
dystopian fiction
;
eco-catastrophe narratives
;
pollution

Watson, Ian,
88
–
89

Weiner, Norbert,
x

Weinstone, Ann,
229

Weisman, Alan (
The World Without Us)
,
193
–
200
,
203n4

Wells, H. G.: apocalyptic theme in,
48
–
49
; biotic invasion in,
83
; ecological ideas in,
25
; evolution ethics in,
43
; optimism-pessimism dialectic in,
25
; pessimistic tradition in,
81
. Works:
Anticipations
,
25
;
The Food of the Gods
,
48
–
49
,
83
;
The Island of Doctor Moreau
,
25
,
48
–
49
;
Men
Like Gods
,
17
,
25
,
32
–
34
,
37
;
A Modern Utopia
,
25
;
The Time Machine
,
2
,
25
,
48
–
49
;
The War of the Worlds
, see main heading;
When the Sleeper Wakes
,
43

Whedon, Joss,
5

White, Hayden,
243

White, Lynn,
91

Whitehead, Alfred North,
211
,
219

Williams, William Appleman,
82

Winterson, Jeanette,
127
–
28
,
131

Wolf, Eric,
78

Wolfe, Gary K.,
49

Wonder Stories
,
42
. See also
Man Who Awoke, The

Wood, Felicity,
144

Woodward, Christopher,
11
–
12

Woodward, Wendy,
146
–
47

Woolf, Virginia,
144

Word for World Is Forest, The
(Ursula K. Le Guin),
17
,
60
,
67

World Without Us, The
(Alan Weisman),
193
–
200
,
203n4

Wylie, Philip,
40

Wyndham, John,
79
,
82

Zardoz
,
40

Zermelo, Ernst,
217

Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu),
66
,
68
,
70

Ziegler, Rob,
41

Žižek, Slavoj,
12
,
182
–
83
,
200
–
203
,
204n27
,
205n23
,
205n29
,
212

Zoo City
(Lauren Beukes),
143

ZPG
: Zero Population Growth (activist group),
100

ZPG: Zero Population Growth
(film),
99
–
100
,
111