{"product_id":"9780814212035","title":"Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eScience fiction goes green? Eric C. Otto explores literary science fiction’s engagement with a central concern of our times: ecological degradation. Situated at the intersection of science fiction studies and environmental philosophy, \u003ci\u003eGreen Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism\u003c\/i\u003e highlights key works of environmental science fiction that critique various human values for their roles in instigating such degradation.\u003cbr\u003eThe books receiving ecocritical treatment in \u003ci\u003eGreen Speculations\u003c\/i\u003e include George R. Stewart’s \u003ci\u003eEarth Abides \u003c\/i\u003e(1949), Frank Herbert’s \u003ci\u003eDune \u003c\/i\u003e(1965), Ursula K. Le Guin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Word for World Is Forest \u003c\/i\u003e(1972), Joan Slonczewski’s \u003ci\u003eA Door into Ocean \u003c\/i\u003e(1986), Kim Stanley Robinson’s \u003ci\u003eMars \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy (1993, 1994, 1996), and Paolo Bacigalupi’s \u003ci\u003eThe Windup Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(2009). Otto reads these and other important science fiction novels as educative in their representations of environmental issues and the environmental philosophies that have emerged in response to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen Speculations \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how environmental science fiction can be read not only as reflecting the ideas of environmental philosophies such as deep ecology, ecofeminism, and ecosocialism, but also as instrumental in thinking through the tenets of these philosophies. As such, the book places science fiction at the center of environmentalism and considers the genre to be an essential tool for prompting needed social and cultural transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011665576176,"sku":"9780814212035","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814212035_p0.jpg?v=1763750775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814212035","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}