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Title Plants in science fiction : speculative vegetation / edited by Katherine E. Bishop, David Higgins and Jerry Määttä.

Publication Info. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New dimensions in science fiction
New dimensions in science fiction.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Series Editors' Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction -- Part 1: Abjection -- 1. Weird Flora: Plant Life in the Classic Weird Tale -- 2. 'Bloody unnatural brutes': Anthropomorphism, Colonialism and the Return of the Repressed in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids -- 3. Botanical Tentacles and the Chthulucene -- Part 2: Affinity -- 4. Between the Living and the Dead: Vegetal Afterlives in Evgenii Iufit and Vladimir Maslov's Silver Heads
5. Vegetable Love: Desire, Feeling and Sexuality in Botanical Fiction -- 6. Alternative Reproduction: Plant-time and Human/Arboreal Assemblages in Holdstock and Han -- Part 3: Accord -- 7. Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume -- 8. The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan's Queen City Jazz -- 9. Queer Ingestions: Weird and Sporous Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction -- 10. The Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes
Summary Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of flora.
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Subject Plants in literature.
Plants in literature.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Science fiction.
Speculative fiction -- History and criticism.
Speculative fiction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Bishop, Katherine E., editor.
Higgins, David, editor.
Määttä, Jerry, 1979- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Plants in science fiction. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2020 1786835592 (OCoLC)1126339366
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