Environments in Science Fiction

Susan M. Bernardo is a professor emerita at Wagner College. She lives in Glen Gardner, New Jersey.

“the book’s diversity makes it relevant to a wide readership...adds to the field in thought-provoking ways”—Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part One. In the Margins: Recentering Individuals, Societies and EnvironmentsHeterotopian Possibilities in Science Fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin (Lauren J. Lacey)Acceptance of the Marginalized in Marge Piercy’s He, She, It and Melissa Scott’s Trouble and Her Friends (Melanie A. Marotta)Anathem’s Flows of Power: State Space and Nomadology on a Cloistered Planet (Jonathan P. Lewis)Part Two. Shifting Worlds Through ­Re-CreationKarel Čapek’s War with the Newts: Deterritorializing Land and Language (Adam Lawrence) 64Mary Shelley’s Literary Laboratory: Frankenstein and the Emergence of the Modern Laboratory in ­Nineteenth-Century Europe (Matthew Hadley)Ecotopian London: Morris’s Geography of Conservation (Margaret S. Kennedy)Part Three. Re-Viewing Damaged Worlds Through QuestsUnderworlds of Despair and Hope in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (Justin T. Noetzel)The Silence of the Subaltern: The Rejection of History and Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome (Shayani Bhattacharya)A Case of Terraphilia: Longing for Place and Community in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Susan M. Bernardo)Discursive Transgressions and Ideological Negotiations: From Orwell’s 1984 to Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Keith Elphick)About the ContributorsIndex