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

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computer

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online resource

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9781786835604
9781786835611

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Electronic Books.

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PN3433 .P536 2020

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Contents:

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

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

Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PN3433.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1155924947

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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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