Green Planets

Preface
Introduction: If This Goes On - Gerry Canavan
PART 1 - Arcadias and New Jerusalems
Extinction, Extermination, and the Ecological Optimism of H.G. Wells -Christina Alt
Evolution and Apocalypse in the Golden Age - Michael page
Daoism, Ecology, and World Reduction in Le Guin's Utopian Fictions - Gib Prettyman
Biotic Invasions: Ecological Imperialism in New Wave Science Fiction - Rob Latham
PART 2 - Brave New Worlds and Lands of the Flies
"The Real Problem of a Spaceship Is Its People": Spaceship Earth as Ecological Science Fiction - Sabine Höhler
The Sea and Eternal Summer: An Australian Apocalypse - Andrew Milner
Care, Gender, and the Climate-Changed Future: Maggie Gee's The Ice People - Adeline Johns-Putra
Future Ecologies, Current Crisis: Ecological Concern in South African Speculative Fiction - Elzette Steenkamp
Ordinary Catastrophes: Paradoxes and Problems in Some Recent Post-Apocalypse Fictions - Christopher Palmer
PART 3 - Quiet Earths, Junk Cities, and the Cultures of the Afternoon
"The Rain Feels New": Ecotopian Strategies in the Short Fiction of Paolo Bacigalupi - Eric C. Otto
Life after People: Science Faction and Ecological Futures - Brent Bellamy and Imre Szeman
Pandora's Box: Avatar, Ecology, Thought - Timothy Morton
Churning Up the Depths: Nonhuman Ecologies of Metaphor in Solaris and "Oceanic": - Melody Jue
Afterword: Still, I'm Reluctant to Call This Pessimism - Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson
Of Further Interest
About the Contributors
Index