Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable : Critical Essays (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

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Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable : Critical Essays (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Burling, William J. (EDT)/ Palumbo, Donald E. (EDT)/ Sullivan III, C.W. (EDT)

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McFarland & Co Inc（2009/05発売）
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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780786433698
DDC分類 813.54

Full Description

While Kim Stanley Robinson is perhaps best known for his hard science fiction works Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars, the epic trilogy exploring ecological and sociological themes involved in human settlement of the Red Planet, his contributions to utopian science fiction are diverse and numerous. Along with aspects of sociology and ecology in the Mars trilogy and other topics, these essays examine Robinson's use of alternate history and politics, both in his many novels and in his short stories. While Robinson has long been a subject of literary criticism, this collection, which includes five new essays and is drawn from writers on four continents, broadens the interpretive debate surrounding Robinson's science fiction and argues for consideration of the author as an intellectual figure of the first rank.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. UTOPIA AND ALTERNATIVE HISTORY

1. Witness to Hard Times: Robinson's Other Californias

(THOMAS P. MOYLAN)

2. "If I Find One Good City, I Will Spare the Man": Realism and Utopia in the Mars Trilogy

(FREDRIC JAMESON)

3. Falling into History: Imagined Wests in the "Three Californias" and Mars Trilogy

(CARL ABBOTT)

4. Remaking History: The Short Fiction

(JOHN KESSEL)

5. The Martians: A Habitable Fabric of Possibilities

(NICK GEVERS)

6. Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicities and the 1990s in The Years of Rice and Salt

(PHILLIP E. WEGNER)

PART II. THEORY AND POLITICS

7. The Density of Utopian Destiny in Red Mars

(CAROL FRANKO)

8. Falling into Theory: Simulation, Terraformation, and Eco-Economics in the Mars Trilogy

(ROBERT MARKLEY)

9. Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in the Mars Trilogy

(ELIZABETH LEANE)

10. The Theoretical Foundation of Utopian Radical Democracy in Blue Mars

(WILLIAM J. BURLING)

11. The Politics of the Network: The Science in the Capital Trilogy

(ROGER LUCKHURST)

12. Living Thought: Genes, Genres and Utopia in the Science in the Capital Trilogy

(GIB PRETTYMAN)

13. "Structuralist Alchemy" in Red Mars

(WILLIAM J. WHITE)

PART III. ECOLOGY AND NATURE

14. Ecological Newspeak

(ALAN R. SLOTKIN)

15. Murray Bookchin on Mars! The Production of Nature in the Mars Trilogy

(SHAUN HUSTON)

16. The Mars Trilogy and the Leopoldian Land Ethic

(ERIC OTTO)

17. Dead Penguins in Immigrant Pilchard Scandal: Telling Stories About "the Environment" in Antarctica

(SHERRYL VINT and MARK BOULD)

PART IV. INTERVIEW AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

18. A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson

(IRVING F. "BUD" FOOTE)

19. A Select Secondary Bibliography

(WILLIAM J. BURLING)

About the Contributors

Index