Green Planets (56 page)

Daybreakers
,
13
–
14

deep ecology,
56
,
256

Delany, Samuel R.,
1
–
3

Deleuze, Gilles,
211
,
217

Derrida, Jacques,
219

DeVore, Irven,
x

disaster narratives.
See
eco-catastrophe narratives

Disch, Thomas,
40
,
68
,
84
. See also
Genocides, The

District 9
(Neill Blomkamp): apocalyptic futurity in,
18
; depiction of Nigerians in,
153
–
54
; documentary style in,
151
; plot overview,
151
–
53
; as South African SF,
143
; sympathetic prawns in,
151
–
52
,
154
–
55
,
157n20

Doctorow, E. L.,
198
–
99

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
83

Dudgeon, Robert Ellis,
116

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre,
182
–
83

dystopian fiction: Australia as dystopian site,
115
–
16
; climate change dystopian fiction,
127
–
29
,
131
,
135
,
139
; cognitive estrangement in,
181
; as contemporary realism,
254
–
55
; dystopian fundamentalism in
The Telling
,
71
; natural dystopia in Bacigalupi,
180
; techno-scientific dystopia in Atwood,
166
–
67
; utopia as implicit in,
xi
,
116
,
180
–
82
,
188
–
89
.
See also
apocalypse
;
climate change
;
eco-catastrophe narratives
;
nuclear weapons/nuclear war
;
scarcity
;
utopia
;
waste spaces

Earth Abides
(George R. Stewart): apocalyptic theme in,
49
; literary influences of,
50
–
51
; optimism-pessimism dialectic in,
17
; plot overview,
51
–
52
; publication of,
42

earthcare,
128
–
30
,
137
–
39

Earth Day,
56
,
90

eco-catastrophe narratives: climate change narratives,
127
–
28
; disaster realism in Gee,
134
; eco-catastrophe causes in
Sea and Summer
,
122
–
25
; ecological SF theme,
243
; futuristic utopia as counterbalancing theme,
16
; 1960s anti-technological New Wave,
80
,
82
; 1960s eco-catastrophe narratives,
80
; nuclear catastrophe narratives,
4
,
116
; overpopulation themes in,
107
–
8
; science faction and,
200
–
202
; self-extinction in
The Genocides
,
85
–
86
; SF-reality dialectic and,
17
–
18
; in South African SF,
145
.
See also
apocalypse
;
climate change
;
dystopian fiction
;
nuclear weapons/nuclear war
;
scarcity
;
waste spaces

ecocide,
101

ecocritique: affinities with SF criticism,
41
–
42
; deflationary vs. inflationary modes in,
16
; of ecological imperialism,
82
–
83
,
86
–
91
; as science fiction,
17

ecofeminism.
See
feminism

ecological imperialism,
82
–
83
,
86
–
91

ecological literary criticism,
53

ecological science fiction: contemporary works,
41
; crisis as key theme in,
243
; Disch “On Saving the World” statement on,
84
; early works in,
x
,
42
; earthcare principle in,
128
–
30
; as ecological discourse,
251
–
53
; ecological writing and,
192
–
93
; environmentalist movement and,
56
–
57
,
89
–
90
; 1950s alien menace narratives,
78
–
79
; 1960s anti-technological New Wave,
80
,
82
; 1960s eco-catastrophe narratives,
80
; 1970s environmental crises and,
40
,
65
,
68
; SF-reality dialectic,
ix
–
x
,
16
–
17
,
53
,
83
,
101
,
116
; speaking for future generations in,
250
–
51

ecology: concept of place in,
148
; critique of economy in,
57
,
75n40
; deep ecology,
56
,
256
; early development of discipline,
25
,
30
–
32
; ecological pessimism,
200
–
202
; elimination of species in
Men Like Gods
,
32
–
37
; in extra-planetary themes,
41
; futuristic thinking in,
192
–
93
; germs as weapons in H. G. Wells,
26
,
34
; Heideggerian philosophy in,
206
–
7
; human survival as goal,
248
–
49
; insect social behavior study,
28
; invasive species and biotic transfer study,
82
–
83
,
86
–
88
,
91
; natural catastrophe in
Earth Abides
,
50
–
52
; 1970s environmental crises and,
65
,
68
; originary “oceanic feeling” of,
233
,
238
–
39
,
240n20
; political ecology,
56
–
60
,
67
,
72
,
199
–
202
,
257
–
59
; SF as ecological discourse,
251
–
53
; world correlators and,
217
–
18
.
See also
population ecology

ecomaternalism,
131
–
33
,
137
–
39
,
140n17

economy: anticapitalism in
Avatar
,
13
,
206
; apocalyptic capitalism,
3
,
12
–
14
,
85
–
86
; austerity economics,
18
; capitalist excess in
The Ice People
,
135
; capitalist “invisible hand” self-regulation,
108
–
9
; closed Spaceman economy,
6
–
9
,
105
; ecological view of,
57
,
61
–
73
,
75n40
; environmental sustainability and,
184
–
85
; financial
crisis in
Sea and Summer
,
121
–
24
; global slums in ecological thinking,
201
–
2
,
204n27
,
205n29
; limitless expansion as capitalist theme,
5
–
7
,
248
–
49
; non-capitalist habitats,
56
; post-apocalyptic stratification in
Oryx and Crake
,
166
–
69
; post-consumerism in
Daybreakers
,
13
–
14
; social welfare programs,
18
,
109
–
10
.
See also
Marx/Marxism

eco-religion,
256
–
57

eco-thriller genre,
195

ecotopia: as Bacigalupi theme,
179
–
80
; Callenback formulation of,
3
; ecodystopian strategies for,
182
–
83
; ecological utopia style,
183
–
84
; in nonhuman Earths,
12
; nostalgic visualization in
WALL-E
,
15
; sustainability in
The Man Who Awoke
,
43
.
See also
utopia

Egan, Greg,
115
,
232
–
33

Ehrlich, Paul,
40
,
100
,
102
,
109

Elton, Charles S.,
31
–
32
,
82
–
83

Elwood, Roger,
40
,
87

energy crisis: in 1970s SF,
40
; blood as energy in
Dabreakers' 2019
,
13
–
14
; calorie wars in Bacigalupi,
181
–
82
; climate change tandem apocalypse,
5
; Enlightenment philosophy and,
203
; in Lawrence Manning,
40
; as Le Guin world reduction,
65
; tar sands oil extraction,
192

environmental science fiction.
See
ecological science fiction

ethnicity (indigeneous Other in
Avatar
),
13
,
19

ethology,
30

Evernden, Beil,
148

evolution: aesthetic species in
Avatar
and,
223
; disease resistance in
Men Like Gods
,
34
; disease resistance in
The Ice People
,
135
; elimination of species in
Men Like Gods
,
32
–
35
; ethics as component of,
43
; lifeboat ethics and,
109
–
10
; natural balance in
City
,
45
,
48
; natural catastrophe in
Earth Abides
,
50
–
52
; as paradigmatic mode of SF,
42
; planetary awareness and,
207
–
8
; population ecology and,
101
–
3
,
108
; as
War of the Worlds
theme,
26
,
30

feminism: Disch on feminist SF,
68
; ecofeminist consciousness in
Word for World is Forest
,
88
; ecofeminist movement,
xi
,
141n18
; ecomaternalism and,
131
–
33
,
137
–
39
,
140n17
; Gee as feminist writer,
134
; in
The Ice People
,
18
; in Le Guin,
68
; 1960s anti-technological New Wave and,
80
; women's activism in
The Ice People
,
137
–
39

fictionalization of science,
x

Fitting, Peter,
77
,
183

Fleischer, Richard,
107
. See also
Soylent Green

fossil fuel crisis.
See
energy crisis

Foster, John Bellamy,
184
–
85

Fraenkel, Abraham,
217

Frankfurt School,
199

Freedman, Carl,
16

Freud, Sigmund,
233

Fukuyama, Francis,
4
,
202
–
3

Fuller, Richard Buckminster,
105

futuristic themes: advanced development in
Men Like Gods
,
32
; ecology as necessity in,
41
; limitless capitalist expansion and,
5
–
7
; Turner frontier thesis and,
6
–
7
.
See also
dystopian fiction
;
time and temporality
;
utopia

Gabriel, Peter,
15

Gadamer, Hans-Georg,
201

Gee, Maggie,
18
,
134
–
39

gender: beauty culture in
Souvenir
,
149
; earthcare principle and,
128
–
29
,
137
–
39
; ecomaternalism,
131
–
33
,
137
–
39
,
140n17
; fragmentary feminine experience in
Souvenir
,
146
; gendered nonhuman agency,
142n27
; gendered utopia in Le Guin,
63
; gender segregation in
The Ice People
,
135
–
39
; sexual reproduction in Bacigalupi's “Pop Squad,”
186
–
89
;
Spaceship Earth and,
99
,
105
; surface/depth ocean study and,
227
.
See also
feminism

genetic science: clones,
146
–
48
; genetic modification in
Greener Than You Think
,
49
–
50
; genetic testing,
ix
–
x

Genocides, The
(Thomas Disch): Ballard eco-catastrophe theme in,
81
; critique of ecological imperialism,
82
,
85
–
87
,
91
; exterminative/genocidal fantasy in,
17
,
49
; New Wave ecological issues in,
84
; plot overview,
84
–
87
; reviews/critiques of,
81
–
82

Gernsback, Hugo,
2
. See also
Amazing Stories
;
Wonder Stories

Gibson, William,
x

Girlfriend in a Coma
(Douglas Coupland),
18
,
161
–
66
,
171
,
173
–
74

Glicksohn, Susan,
87