Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781786835598)

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels, and film. John Wyndham's triffids, Algernon Blackwood's willows, and Han Kang's sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations, and inhabit our metaphors - but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet, literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads of science fictional inquiry, by the concerns of today. Plants in Science Fiction is the first-ever collected volume on plants in science fiction. Its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics, and cultural life at large; questioning and shifting our understandings of institutions, nations, borders, and boundaries; erecting - and dismantling - new visions of utopian and dystopian futures.

Author: Katherine E. Bishop, Jerry Määttä
ISBN-10: 1786835592
ISBN-13: 9781786835598
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d