Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Terraforming:
Engineering Imaginary Environments
Shaping Earth and the Solar System
Sf as Environmental Literature
A Disciplined Thought Experiment: Landscaping, Sf, and Terraforming
The Lay of the Land
1: Landscaping Nature’s Otherness in Pre-1960s Terraforming
and Proto-Gaian Stories
Terraforming as a Site for Environmental Philosophical Reflection
The War on Nature in Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come and John Russell Fearn’s ‘Earth’s Mausoleum’
Nature’s Otherness and Terraforming in Stapledon’s Last and First Men and Star Maker
Deism and Teleology in Stapledon’s Essays of Myth Creation
Pre-1940s Proto-Gaian Living Worlds
Proto-Gaian Scientific Romance: M.P.
Shiel’s The Purple Cloud and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘When the World Screamed’
The Pulp Sf Proto-Gaian Cluster
The Decline of the Living World Motif in 1950s American Pulp Sf
2: The American Pastoral
and the Conquest of Space
The Garden of the World in Early 1950s Terraforming Stories
The Burden of Hope in the Garden of the Chattel:
1950s Consensus Dystopias
Moral Extensionism in Terraforming Stories of the Late 1950s and Early 1960s
3: Ecology and Environmental Awareness in 1960s–1970s Terraforming Stories
1960s–1970s Proto-Gaian Living Worlds
Terragouging: Time and the Forest
Terraforming in the 1960s–1970s
Terraforming and Ecopolitics in the Dune Sequence
The Garden in Dune
Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Ursula K.
Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia
4: Edging Towards
an Eco-cosmopolitan Vision
Building Critical Spaces: Pamela Sargent’s Venus Trilogy
Domes on Venus: Chronotopes of Enclosure
The Pastoral in Pamela Sargent’s Venus Trilogy
Frederick Turner’s Genesis: An Epic Poem
5: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
Gardens on Mars
‘Stepping Back’
Visions Reflected Back to Earth
Closed Life-Support Systems, Soil, and Cybernetics
Eco-Economics and the Landscape as Mirror
Science and Nature
On Martian Myths
Conclusion
Coda
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