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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786835604
  • 9781786835611
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN3433 .P536 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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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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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